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Mega-events and modernity: olimpics and expos in the growth of global culture
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ISBN: 0585452830 0203443942 1280052104 1134729162 9780415157124 9780585452838 9780203443941 9780415157117 0415157110 0415157129 9786610052103 6610052107 9781280052101 9781134729166 9781134729111 9781134729159 1134729154 Year: 2000 Publisher: London Routledge

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Explores the social history and politics of 'mega-events' from the late 19th century to the present. Case studies: 1936 Berlin Olympics, 1992 Barcelona Olympics, 1851 Crystal Palace Expo. A thoroughly new and ground-breaking analysis.


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Mega-events and social change
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ISBN: 1526128411 1526117096 9781526117106 152611710X 9781526117090 9781526117083 1526117088 9781526128416 Year: 2017 Publisher: Manchester

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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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