Space, mobility, and crisis in mega-event organisation : Tokyo olympics 2020's atmospheric irradiations / Rodanthi Tzanelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tzanelli, Rodanthi, 1974- author.

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology.

Routledge advances in sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympic Games--(32nd : 2021 : Tokyo, Japan).

Olympic Games.

Special events--Japan--Tokyo--Management.

Special events.

Risk management--Japan--Tokyo.

Risk management.

Olympics--Economic aspects--Japan.

Olympics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2023]

Summary:

"This book advances an alternative critical posthumanist approach to mega-event organisation, taking into account both the new and the old crises which humanity and our planet face. Taking the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a case study, Tzanelli explores mega-event crisis and risk management in the era of extreme urbanisation, natural disasters, global pandemic, and technoscientific control. Capturing the atmospheric term 'irradiation': a technology of glamour and transparency, as well as bodily penetration by harmful agents and strong affects, the book explores this epistemological statement diachronically (via Tokyo's relationship with Western forms of domination) and synchronically (the city as a global cultural-political player but victim of climate catastrophes). It presents how the 'Olympic enterprises' flattening' of indigenous environmental place-making rhythms, the scientisation of space and place in the Anthropocene leads to reductionisms harmful for a viable programme of planetary recovery. An experimental study of the mega-event is enacted, which considers the researcher's analytical tools and the styles of human and non-human mobility during the mega-event as reflexive gateways to forms of posthuman flourishing. Crossing and bridging disciplinary boundaries, the book will appeal to any scholar interested in mobilities theory, event and environment studies, sociology of knowledge and cultural globalisation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introducing a risky experiment

2. Pilgrimage in Tokyo

3. The birth of the Japanese CineKiki

4. The dreams of the Japanese CineKiki

5. The ceremonies of the Japanese CineKiki

6. The life and death of the Japanese CineKiki

7. The journeys of the Japanese CineKiki: bodies and no-bodies

8. Conclusion: the chronicles of a biotechnical crime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-331454-6

1-000-77337-X

1-003-31454-6

1-000-77341-8

9781003314547

OCLC:

1317343182