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Mega-events, city and power / Nelma Gusmão de Oliveira.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliveira, Nelma Gusmão de, author.
- Series:
- Routledge critical studies in urbanism and the city
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hosting of sporting events--Social aspects--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Hosting of sporting events.
- City planning--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History.
- City planning.
- Special events--Social aspects.
- Special events.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Sociology, Urban.
- Hosting of sporting events--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 192 pages): illustrations (black and white).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Nelma Gusmô de Oliveira is a professor at State University of Southwestern Bahia in Brazil, where she researches large-scale development projects. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the 2012-2013 prize for best dissertation by the Brazilian National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Urban and Regional Planning.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. The production of sports spectacle on a global scale
- 1. Laying the field: a genealogy of the sports spectacle 2. The players and their strategies 3. The rules of the game
- Part 2. The production of sports spectacle on a local scale
- 4. Two converging fields: the production of the city and the production of the sports spectacle
- 5. The host of the game: playing to win
- 6. Force-of-law: institutional ruptures and realignments linked to the production of sport spectacle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780429515842
- 0429515847
- 9780429512414
- 0429512414
- 9780429242663
- 0429242662
- 9780429519277
- 0429519273
- Publisher Number:
- 40030294485
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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