Mega-events and social change : spectacle, legacy and public culture /
Maurice Roche.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages).
- Globalizing Sport Studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Globalizing Sport Studies series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Mega-events and macro-social change; 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; 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 citiesIII 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; References; Index.
Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, but also mark and influence, deeper social changes in each of the three social spheres of the media, cities and global geopolitics.