Rodanthi Tzanelli

Space, Mobility, and Crisis in Mega-Event Organisation

Tokyo Olympics 2020's Atmospheric Irradiations

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781032323404
• ISBN-10: 103232340X
• Artikelnr.: 64627178

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing a risky experiment
2. Pilgrimage in Tokyo
3. The birth of the Japanese CineKiki
4. The dreams of the Japanese CineKiki
5. The ceremonies of the Japanese CineKiki
6. The life and death of the Japanese CineKiki
7. The journeys of the Japanese CineKiki: bodies and no-bodies
8. Conclusion: the chronicles of a biotechnical crime