Mega-events and globalization : capital and spectacle in a changing World order /: capital and spectacle in a changing World order. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Gruneau and John Horne.
• Editors: Gruneau, Richard S, 1948-; Horne, John, 1955-
• Contents: Mega Events and Globalization : A Critical Introduction / Richard Gruneau and John Horne -- Gotham Beyond Bread and Circuses: Mega-Events as Forces of Creative-Destruction / Kevin Fox -- Mega-Events, Media and the Integrated World of Global Spectacle / James Compton -- Modernization, Neoliberalism and Sports Mega Events: Evolving Discourses in Latin America / Simon Darnell and Rob Millington -- Between Madiba Magic and Spectacular Capitalism: The FIFA World Cup in South Africa / Ashwin Desai -- Mega-events and the City of Exception : Theoretical Explorations of Brazilian experience / Carlos Vainer -- Mega-events, Urban Image Construction and the Politics of Exclusion / Anne Marie Broudehoux -- Sochi 2014: Politics, Economics, Spectacle, and Dissent / Jules Boykoff -- The World Cup, the Security State and the Colonized Other: Reflections on Brazil, Russia, South Africa, and Qatar / Grant Farred -- The Urban Impacts of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil / Chris Gaffney -- China meets Korea : the Asian Games, Entrepreneurial Local States and Debt-Driven Development / Hyun Bang Shin -- Mega-Events of the Future: The Experience Economy, the Korean Connection and the Growth of eSport / Michael Borowy and Dal Yong Jin.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 796.06/9; Hosting of sporting events -- Social aspects; Sports tournaments -- Social aspects; Special events -- Social aspects; Sports and globalization; Sports and globalization; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317617358; 1317617355; 9781315752174; 1315752174
• Related ISBNs: 9781138805613; 1138805610
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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