@DrAdamTalbot

Sociologist teaching and researching mega-events @UniWestScotland. Interested in human rights, protest, and Brasil. Sempre com saudades do Rio

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Joined December 2012
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It's launch day! My book, Resisting Olympic Evictions, is out now! manchesteruniversitypress.co… @ManchesterUP #olympics #socialmovements #righttothecity #sociology #geography #ethnography #acwri
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Pleased to see this paper out in @Contention_J. 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/jo…

Event Coalitions after the Event

Abstract This article introduces a conceptual framework for understanding the lasting benefits of coalition participation for SMOs. Based on ethnographic research into protest linked to the 2016...

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Our CCSE Directors @gaylemcpherson_ & @dgmcgillivray1 & members @CMcCloskey11 & @DrAdamTalbot contributed to this film about sport events & human rights w/ @lmisene @jasonbocarro @lmisene @AndreaFlorence4 @Jujuca1987.
UWS@UniWestScotland11 Dec 2024
We’re proud to launch EventRights: Progressing Human Rights in Sport Events, a groundbreaking film that looks at the complex relationship between mega sporting events, like the #WorldCup, and #HumanRights. Read more and watch the film: uws.ac.uk/news/mega-sport-ev…
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ESA RN28@EsaRn2811 Dec 2024
A really important book to understand the social effects of Mega Sport Events
Adam Talbot@DrAdamTalbot21 May 2024
It's launch day! My book, Resisting Olympic Evictions, is out now! manchesteruniversitypress.co… @ManchesterUP #olympics #socialmovements #righttothecity #sociology #geography #ethnography #acwri
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Our @EventRights project film comes out tomorrow as FIFA makes its 2030 &2034 announcements. Here’s a taster where @Jujuca1987 @Sport_Rights talks about how athletes are treated. Pls share @gaylemcpherson_ @CMcCloskey11 @jasonbocarro @lmisene @DrAdamTalbot
UWS@UniWestScotland10 Dec 2024
How can sporting events like the Olympics and FIFA World Cup become platforms for justice and progress? Our new film, EventRights: Progressing Human Rights in Sport Events, tackles this question head-on. We'll be releasing the film on our socials TOMORROW! 📽️
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This book is an important one. It documents Vila Autódromo's struggle against evictions ahead of Rio2016—"a story about power, about who decides what and who urban space is for.” I had the privilege of reviewing it for @antipodeonline: antipodeonline.org/2024/11/1… Go read the book!
Adam Talbot@DrAdamTalbot21 May 2024
It's launch day! My book, Resisting Olympic Evictions, is out now! manchesteruniversitypress.co… @ManchesterUP #olympics #socialmovements #righttothecity #sociology #geography #ethnography #acwri
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A short piece on the Paris Olympics, protest and politics with @DrAdamTalbot , olympicanalysis.org/paris-20…
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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 @JulesBoykoff Produced by @TheRealNews! youtu.be/sbaG6wNvkLA?si=GBjZ…
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Great presentation by @dscottresearch on the challenges faced by black athletes in the white spaces of University Sport and the palming off of responsibility by University leaders #LSA2024
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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
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Now @gaylemcpherson_ is talking through the opportunities to challenge ablelist language in sport mega-events #LSA2024
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Great presentation by @verity_pos on diplomacy and gender at the 2023 Women's World Cup #LSA2024
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Listening to @rhi_lord making the case for using autoethnography as a pedagogical tool to drive engagement while addressing challenges associated with generative AÍ #LSA2024
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Great turnout as @ChloeMaclean opens #LSA2024
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📯📯 New blog on our webpage, @DrAdamTalbot 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 🏟️🏊‍♀️🏗️
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Out now: 'Resisting Olympic evictions' by @DrAdamTalbot of @UniWestScotland An in-depth study of resistance to favela evictions in #RiodeJaneiro illustrates one community’s successful fight against the #Olympic juggernaut. 📗tinyurl.com/9xtcssyk @ASAnews
Book cover image for 'Resisting Olympic evictions: Contesting space in Rio de Janeiro' by Adam Talbot, published by Manchester University Press, May 2024. (Hardcover ISBN: 9781526156297)

ALT Book cover image for 'Resisting Olympic evictions: Contesting space in Rio de Janeiro' by Adam Talbot, published by Manchester University Press, May 2024. (Hardcover ISBN: 9781526156297)

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The book tracks the resistance to eviction in Vila Autódromo, which became an emblematic case of evictions in the run-up to Rio 2016. I explore the creative strategies used to resist the Olympic juggernaut through this rare case of successful anti-Olympic protest
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Academic friends, please consider ordering a copy for your library - if enough libraries (and people) buy the hardback, a more affordable paperback version will be released!
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I like that everyone on Twitter gets to experience what its like to work at a university: youre struggling to make the thing do what its traditionally meant/valued to do while a bunch of finance guys “innovate” all function & trust away; occasionally embarrassing rebrands happen.
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CON@counterOlympics19 Jul 2023
Commonwealth Games crisis shows model for hosting big events is broken theguardian.com/sport/blog/2…
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