Mega-events and social change : spectacle, legacy and public culture / Maurice Roche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roche, Maurice, author.

Series:

Globalizing sport studies.

Globalizing sport studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Special events--Social aspects.

Special events.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In this volume, 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 modernisation process. Changes are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events.

Contents:

Cover

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Tables

Globalizing Sport Studies series editor's preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Mega-events and macro-social change

I Mega-events and media change

2 Mega-events and mediatisation: between old and new media

3 The digital age, media sport and mega-events: piracy and symbiosis in the cultural industries

II Mega-events, legacy and urban change

4 Embedding mega-events: staging spectacles in changing cities

5 Mega-events and urban development: Olympics and legacies

6 Mega-events, urban space and social change: Expos, parks and cities

III Mega-events and global change in East and West

7 Mega-events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty-first century

8 Mega-events, glocalisation and urban legacy: London as an event city and the 2012 Olympics

References

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 9, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526117106

152611710X

9781526128416

1526128411

9781526117090

1526117096

OCLC:

1114115371