Mega-Events and Social Change: Spectacle, Legacy and Public Culture

di Maurice Roche (Autore)

Manchester University Press, 2017

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. -- .

• Autore: Maurice Roche
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Collana: Globalizing Sport Studies
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 344 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 708 gr.
• EAN: 9781526117083

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