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Mega-events and social change : spectacle, legacy and public culture

Roche, Maurice, author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Subject: Sports tournaments Social aspects. / Olympics Social aspects. / Entertainment events Social aspects. / Special events Social aspects. / Social change.
• ISBN: 9781526117083, 1526117088

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GV712.R63 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE