TY - BOOK ID - 78436756 TI - Mega-events and social change : spectacle, legacy and public culture PY - 2017 SN - 1526128411 1526117096 9781526117106 152611710X 9781526117090 9781526117083 1526117088 9781526128416 PB - Manchester : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social change. KW - Special events KW - Entertainment events KW - Olympics KW - Sports tournaments KW - Tournaments KW - Tournaments, Sports KW - Contests KW - Games, Olympic KW - Olympic games KW - Summer Olympics KW - Sports KW - Amusements KW - Events, Special KW - Manners and customs KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - Social aspects. KW - Expos. KW - Olympics. KW - People's Republic of China. KW - digital revolution. KW - ecological crisis. KW - geopolitical relations. KW - global ecological crisis. KW - globalisation. KW - green impacts. KW - mega-events. KW - modernisation processes. KW - performative spectacles. KW - space-making impacts. KW - urbanisation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78436756 AB - 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. ER -