Maurice Roche

Mega-events and social change (eBook, ePUB)

Spectacle, legacy and public culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526117106
• Artikelnr.: 48796019

Autorenporträt

Maurice Roche is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

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