Sean Selier, from the Department of Sport Leadership and Management, published work in the Sport History Review. His article documents the hegemony of major sporting events in Atlanta and the formation and structure of a historic bloc to produce these events. It offers a historical account of the relations of production or effects on the subaltern of the city: a protracted urban apartheid against low-income, Black neighborhoods and homeless persons in and around the city. This urban apartheid is an economy of dispossession defined not only as displacement but also appropriation, suppression, or substitution of their stories and histories to promote “The New New South” rhetoric, Atlanta as pro-business, growth-minded, progressive, and racially harmonious. This is as Atlanta is set to host eight matches, including a semifinal, for the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup.

Seiler, S. (2026). A “Sports Capital of the World” for Whom?: Economy of Dispossession in Atlanta, 1949–2026. Sport History Review, 57(1), 71-92. Retrieved Jul 8, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.1123/shr.2025-0035