Mega-Events and Social Change
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1708-3 (ISBN)
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. -- .
Maurice Roche is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield -- .
Introduction
1 Mega-events and macro-social change
PART I: Mega-events and media change
2 Mega-events and mediatisation: between ‘old’ and ‘new’ media
3 The ‘Digital Age’, media-sport and mega-events: ‘piracy’ and symbiosis in the cultural industries
PART II: Mega-events, legacy and urban change
4 Embedding mega-events: staging spectacles in changing cities
5 Mega-events and urban development: Olympics and ‘legacies’
6 Mega-events, urban space and social change: expos, parks and cities
PART III: Mega-events and global change in East and West
7 Mega-events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty-first century
8 Mega-events, glocalisation and urban legacy: London as an ‘event city’ and the 2012 Olympics
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Globalizing Sport Studies |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 708 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-1708-8 / 1526117088 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-1708-3 / 9781526117083 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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