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A ‘big’ legacy? Evaluating volunteers’ experiences of London 2012 and beyond LINDAWILKS
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A ‘big’ legacy? Evaluating volunteers’ experiences of London 2012 and beyond LINDAWILKS
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A ‘big’ legacy? Evaluating volunteers’ experiences of London 2012 and beyond LINDAWILKS book
ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between Olympic volunteering and subsequent community engagement in order to throw light on this aspect of the socio-cultural impacts and legacies of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The experiences of 20 London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic volunteers are explored against a community engagement-related policy backdrop. The theoretical framework of Van Gennep’s (1960/1908) three-stage rites of passage is used to structure the findings.