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

Roche, Maurice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526133873 ISBN 13 : 9781526133878

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526133873
• ISBN 13: 9781526133878
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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