Mega-Events and Social Change : Spectacle, Legacy and Public Culture Paperback / softback
by Maurice Roche
Part of the Globalizing Sport Studies series
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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. -- .
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- Pages:344 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:04/01/2019
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- ISBN:9781526133878
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:04/01/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526133878
