This book explores the multifaceted impact of sports mega-events, from the World Cup to the Olympics, Formula One, and America’s Cup. Often celebrated for uniting nations, showcasing culture, and driving economic growth, these events also face increasing scrutiny for their ecological and social consequences. Global Sports Go Green—Or Do They? critically examines claims of environmental responsibility, addressing their effects on ecosystems, communities, and athletes, and interrogates the gap between greenwashing rhetoric, material realities, and grassroots resistance.
The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of the sociology of sport, mega-events, sociology of culture and sustainability.
Toby Miller is Profesor Distinguido at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. He was a Professor at the University of California, Riverside for a decade and New York University for twelve years. The author and editor of over fifty books, his work has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Turkish, German, Italian, Farsi, French, Urdu, and Swedish. His most recent volumes are Why Journalism? A Polemic (2024), A COVID Charter, a Better World (2021), Violence (2021), The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture (2020), How Green is Your Smartphone? (2020), El trabajo cultural (2018), Greenwashing Culture (2018), and Greenwashing Sport (2018). Formerly editor of the Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Social Text, and Television & New Media, he currently edits Open Cultural Studies.
Joan Pedro-Carañana is Associate Professor of Journalism at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He has co-edited The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness, Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse. An International Dialogue, and Political Economy of Media and Communication Methodological Approaches.
