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Event power : how global events manage and manipulate / Chris Rojek.
LIBRA GT3405 .R65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rojek, Chris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Special events--Management.
- Special events.
- Special events--Political aspects.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Social control.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2013.
- Summary:
- Argues that events are essential elements in corporate-state partnerships of 'invisible government' that have revived the romance of charity so to form illusory communities, while cloaking power imbalances and social inequalities.... [an] account of communication power, social ordering and control. -- back cover
- Contents:
- 1 What is event management? 1
- 2 What are the main types of event? 13
- 3 Why is 'moral regulation' relevant? 31
- 4 How is event cognition formulated? 50
- 5 How are global events organised? 70
- 6 What do cyclical events do? 80
- 7 "Why are we drawn to events? 100
- 8 What is event consciousness? 112
- 9 What do single-issue events do? 122
- 10 Why are events so emotional? 139
- 11 What is event appropriation? 152
- 12 Does event management have a future? 178.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857025173
- 0857025171
- 085702518X
- 9780857025180
- OCLC:
- 816159758
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