Maurice Roche

Mega-events and social change

Spectacle, legacy and public culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9781526117083
• ISBN-10: 1526117088
• Artikelnr.: 47662050

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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