{"product_id":"mega-events-and-social-change-spectacle-legacy-and-public-culture-9781526117083","title":"Mega-Events and Social Change: Spectacle, Legacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with  contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos.  Using a  sociological perspective 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 modernization process.   Changes  are particularly visible in the media, urban and global locational aspects of mega-events.   Thus  he  suggests that contemporary mega-events,  both in their achievements and their vulnerabilities, reflect, in the media sphere, the rise of the internet; in the urban sphere, de-industrialisation and the growing ecological crisis;  and in the global sphere, the relative decline of the West and the rise of China and other ‘emerging’ countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Mega-events and macro-social change\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: Mega-events and media change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Mega-events and mediatisation: between ‘old’ and ‘new’ media\u003cbr\u003e3 The ‘Digital Age’, media-sport and mega-events: ‘piracy’ and symbiosis in the cultural industries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: Mega-events, legacy and urban change \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Embedding mega-events: staging spectacles in changing cities\u003cbr\u003e5 Mega-events and urban development: Olympics and ‘legacies’\u003cbr\u003e6 Mega-events, urban space and social change: expos, parks and cities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: Mega-events and global change in East and West \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Mega-events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty-first century\u003cbr\u003e8 Mega-events, glocalisation and urban legacy: London as an ‘event city’ and the 2012 Olympics\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040987447639,"sku":"9781526117083","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526117083.jpg?v=1750948500","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mega-events-and-social-change-spectacle-legacy-and-public-culture-9781526117083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}