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Anthropology of Mega-Events

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This is an introductory chapter, explaining how different yet complementary perspectives and methods were combined and tuned in the proposed anthropological research.

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    My fieldwork took place in years 2012–2014. This is when I conducted most of the interviews and talked with various people engaged in the discussion on the city’s future; attended official and informal meetings; and, last but not least, participated in sports events. However, also after the end of this work, I was determined to listen to those locals who would usually say that “they are not interested in politics”, so I kept on having endless conversations in shops, cafés and during family meetings. The stories written in the book are told by people I talked to during my research. I thank all of them for their time, patience and dinners they cooked for me when I was writing up my dissertation.

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Kowalska, M.Z. (2017). Anthropology of Mega-Events. In: Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52105-3_1

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