| Mega-Events and Social Change: Spectacle, Legacy and Public Culture Contributor(s): Roche, Maurice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1526133873 ISBN-13: 9781526133878 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports - Sports & Recreation | Olympics & Paralympics - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 306.483 |
| Series: Globalizing Sport Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.06 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
