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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.

Social change. --- Special events --- Entertainment events --- Olympics --- Sports tournaments --- Tournaments --- Tournaments, Sports --- Contests --- Games, Olympic --- Olympic games --- Summer Olympics --- Sports --- Amusements --- Events, Special --- Manners and customs --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Social aspects. --- Expos. --- Olympics. --- People's Republic of China. --- digital revolution. --- ecological crisis. --- geopolitical relations. --- global ecological crisis. --- globalisation. --- green impacts. --- mega-events. --- modernisation processes. --- performative spectacles. --- space-making impacts. --- urbanisation.