Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event

Małgorzata Zofia Kowalska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

• 1. Anthropology of mega-events.- 2. Between and betwixt. Poznań in the scalar perspective.- 3. “Like Pharaoh, Like Pyramid”. Embedding sports mega-event in the local tradition.- 4. “The City Is Not a Company”. Or is it?.- 5. Conclusions. Shifting meanings, new knowledge production.