Congrats Adam Talbot! and super timely, considering Brazil was just chosen to host the women's world cup!

Out now: 'Resisting Olympic evictions' by Adam Talbot of UWS An in-depth study of resistance to favela evictions in #RiodeJaneiro illustrates one community’s successful fight against the #Olympic juggernaut. 📗tinyurl.com/9xtcssyk ASA Sociology

📯📯 New blog on our webpage, Adam Talbot revisits Rio 🇧🇷 and Vila Autódromo, the favela that stood up to the Olympic Games to see what’s happened to the place and its people eight years on, take a 👀 ccse.uws.ac.uk/?p=4799 🏟️🏊‍♀️🏗️

Great turnout as Chloe Maclean opens #LSA2024

Listening to Rhiannon Lord making the case for using autoethnography as a pedagogical tool to drive engagement while addressing challenges associated with generative AÍ #LSA2024

Great presentation by Verity Postlethwaite on diplomacy and gender at the 2023 Women's World Cup #LSA2024

Now Prof Gayle McPherson is talking through the opportunities to challenge ablelist language in sport mega-events #LSA2024

And out last presentation for the day, Steve Mills is talking through the sustainability challenges of the Olympic Games and how changes to the bidding process have affected legacy #LSA2024

Great presentation by Dr David Scott on the challenges faced by black athletes in the white spaces of University Sport and the palming off of responsibility by University leaders #LSA2024

My latest video report from Olympic Paris. The arrest of journalists and the targeting of the left? Welcome to the authoritarian Olympics! Camera work by Jules Boykoff Produced by The Real News! youtu.be/sbaG6wNvkLA?si…

A short piece on the Paris Olympics, protest and politics with Adam Talbot , olympicanalysis.org/paris-2024-liv…

Our EventRights project film comes out tomorrow as FIFA makes its 2030 &2034 announcements. Here’s a taster where Joanna Maranhão Sport & Rights Alliance talks about how athletes are treated. Pls share Prof Gayle McPherson Callum McCloskey Jason Bocarro Laura Misener Adam Talbot

A really important book to understand the social effects of Mega Sport Events

Our CCSE Directors Prof Gayle McPherson & David McGillivray & members Callum McCloskey & Adam Talbot contributed to this film about sport events & human rights w/ Laura Misener Jason Bocarro Laura Misener Andrea Florence Joanna Maranhão.

Pleased to see this paper out in Contention_Journal. It explores the way social movements in Rio transformed in the wake of the Olympic Games, providing a framework for understanding how coalitions can lead to lasting benefits for movement organisations berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…