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A New Megasport Legacy: Host-Country Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Reforms

A New Megasport Legacy: Host-Country Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Reforms

Author: Andrew Spalding
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197503614
Published In: July 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Though the Qatar 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup is for many a symbol of long-standing corruption and human rights problems, the event may actually represent something entirely new.

Megasports are now demonstrating a capacity to leave what this book calls a human rights and anti-corruption legacy: norms, practices, policies, or laws that have application beyond sport, are likely to endure after the event, and the implementation of which is accelerated by hosting the event. In the 2010s, Brazil's hosting of the FIFA Men's World Cup and Summer Olympics, and then South Korea's hosting of the Winter Olympics, left what this book calls reactive, accidental, and one-dimensional anti-corruption legacies. Most would be shocked to find that Qatar now moves this legacy concept forward, undertaking to create megasports' first intentional and proactive human rights legacy.

The first and perhaps best opportunity to build a proactive, intentional, and two-dimensional human rights and anti-corruption legacy lies in France, as it prepares to host the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics while implementing new landmark anti-corruption and human rights laws. The concept may still advance in Australia and New Zealand (2023 FIFA Women's World Cup) and Italy (2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics). However, the United Bid of Canada, the United States, and Mexico has promised the first proactive, intentional, and two-dimensional legacy around the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup. The book analyzes existing megasport policies and practices, then suggests reforms to acknowledge and support these new legacies.

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PART I: ORIGINS OF A HUMAN RIGHTS AND ANTI-CORRUPTION LEGACY

Chapter 1. From the Founding through Globalization: Preconditions of the New Legacy

Chapter 2. Toward Globalized Standards: Human Rights Due Diligence and Anti-Corruption Compliance

PART II: EARLY INTIMATIONS OF A NEW LEGACY

Chapter 3. An Awakening: Brazil's 2014 FIFA Men's World Cup and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics

Chapter 4. A Pattern Emerges: South Korea's 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

PART III: PROGRESSING TOWARD A PROACTIVE, INTENTIONAL, AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL LEGACY

Chapter 5. The First Intentional and Proactive Human Rights Legacy: Qatar's 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup

Chapter 6. A Large But Latent Legacy: the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

Chapter 7. Future Legacy Opportunities: Australia and New Zealand 2023; Italy 2026; and the U.S., Canada, and Mexico 2026