The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new 'second phase' of the modernization process. Changes are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events. Thus he suggests that contemporary mega-events, both in their achievements and their vulnerabilities, reflect, in the media sphere, the rise of the internet; in the urban sphere, de-industrialisation and the growing ecological crisis; and in the global sphere, the relative decline of the West and the rise of China and other 'emerging' countries. -- .
By:
Maurice Roche
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN: 9781526133878
ISBN 10: 1526133873
Series: Globalizing Sport Studies
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 04 January 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 -- .
Maurice Roche is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield -- .
