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- Title
Public Consultation and Stadium Developments: Coercion and the Polarization of Debate.
- Authors
Scherer, Jay; Sam, Michael P.
- Abstract
Despite growing calls from activists and sport scholars for public consultation over the expenditure of public funds for stadium developments, there remains a lack of empirical research that examines the politics of these practices. This study critically examines the power relations and tensions present in the public-consultation processes and debates over the use of public funds to renovate or rebuild Carisbrook stadium. Specifically, we engage the enabling and constraining institutional mechanisms that structured five public meetings, which emerged as discursive political spaces in the policy-making process. In doing so, we critically examine the discourses that were actively shaped by stadium proponents to fit the mandates of neoliberal growth and resisted by concerned citizens who opposed: (a) the use of public funds to renovate or rebuild the stadium, and (b) a consultation process driven by a public-private partnership of business, civic, and rugby interests that had perplexing consequences for democratic politics in local governance.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY of sports; SPORTS facility finance; SPORTS &; economics; SPORTS &; state; POLITICAL sociology; ECONOMICS; LAW
- Publication
Sociology of Sport Journal, 2008, Vol 25, Issue 4, p443
- ISSN
0741-1235
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/ssj.25.4.443