Space, Mobility, and Crisis in Mega-Event Organisation Tokyo Olympics 2020''s Atmospheric Irradiations

Taking the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a case study, Tzanelli explores mega-event crisis and risk management in the era of extreme urbanisation, natural disasters, global pandemic, and technoscientific control.

Info autore

Rodanthi Tzanelli is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology and Director of the Mobilities Research Area in the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK. She is a social and cultural theorist of mobility (tourism, social movements, mega-events, and technology) with particular reference to the representational discourses, regimes of consumption, and crises induced by capitalism and climate change. She is author of numerous critical interventions, research articles, and chapters, as well as 14 monographs including Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene: Mutating the Crisis (2021).

Riassunto

Taking the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a case study, Tzanelli explores mega-event crisis and risk management in the era of extreme urbanisation, natural disasters, global pandemic, and technoscientific control.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rodanthi (University of Leeds Tzanelli, Rodanthi Tzanelli
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 25.11.2022
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche
• EAN: 9781032323404
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232340-4
• Numero di pagine: 188
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Categorie: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Politics & government, Sports training & coaching, Sociology: sport & leisure, Environmental Sociology, Social issues & processes, Political Economy, Sociology: sport and leisure, Politics and government, Social and ethical issues, Sports training and coaching, Tourism industry, Hospitality and service industries, Retail and wholesale industries, Events management industries, posthumanist theory, Anthropocene studies, cultural globalisation, urban risk management, reflexive research methods, mega-event crisis analysis