Mega-Events and Social Change - Spectacle, Legacy and Public Culture

Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.

Table des matières

Introduction
1 Mega-events and macro-social change
PART I: Mega-events and media change
2 Mega-events and mediatisation: between 'old' and 'new' media
3 The 'Digital Age', media-sport and mega-events: 'piracy' and symbiosis in the cultural industries
PART II: Mega-events, legacy and urban change
4 Embedding mega-events: staging spectacles in changing cities
5 Mega-events and urban development: Olympics and 'legacies'
6 Mega-events, urban space and social change: expos, parks and cities
PART III: Mega-events and global change in East and West
7 Mega-events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty-first century
8 Mega-events, glocalisation and urban legacy: London as an 'event city' and the 2012 Olympics
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Maurice Roche is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield

Résumé

Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Maurice Roche, Roche Maurice
• Collaboration: John Horne (Editeur)
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781526133878
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3387-8
• Pages: 344
• Thèmes: Globalizing Sport Studies; Globalizing Sport Studies
• Catégories: Livres de conseils > Sport > Général, dictionnaires, manuels, annuaires, histoire; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Urban communities, Sporting events and management, Sporting events & management, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, Olympic and Paralympic games