Exploring the Nexus Between Events and Human Rights: Building Agendas for Research, Theory, and Practice
Keywords
Olympic Games; Olympic Winter Games; Human rights; Cost benefit analysis; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Human rights violations
Abstract
As events have proliferated, so have concerns about their impacts, utility, and consequent value. From a utilitarian standpoint, there has been more than a little concern that event costs exceed event benefits, especially when both are rigorously identified (Salgado Barandela et al., 2023; Taks et al., 2011), and that even if economically positive in aggregate, they operate as income transfers from the many who subsize them to the few who can benefit (Mules, 1998; Ziakas, 2015). From the standpoint of social ethics, there have been concerns over human rights abuses associated with events (Horne, 2018; Louw, 2012). Although popular media may attribute the fact of abuse to particular types of governments or events, evidence suggests that abuses occur winter and summer, regardless of whether governments position themselves as liberal democracies or as authoritarian autocracies.
Publication Date
9-2023
Original Citation
Duignan, M., & Chalip, L. (2023). Exploring the Nexus Between Events and Human Rights: Building Agendas for Research, Theory, and Practice. Event Management, 27(6), 815–821. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599523X16923678342422
Document Type
Paper
Language
English
Source Title
Event Management
Volume
27
Issue
6
Copyright Status
Unknown
College
Rosen College of Hospitality Management
Location
Rosen College of Hospitality Management
STARS Citation
Duignan, Michael and Chalip, Laurence, "Exploring the Nexus Between Events and Human Rights: Building Agendas for Research, Theory, and Practice" (2023). Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 1238.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfscholar/1238