UID:
almahu_9949865516702882
Format:
1 online resource :
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illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9781317617358
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1317617355
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9781317617365
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1317617363
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9781317617341
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1317617347
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Note:
""Mega-Events and Globalization""; ""Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on the Contributors""; ""1 Mega-Events and Globalization: A Critical Introduction""; ""Mega-Events, Academic Writing, and the Project of this Book""; ""Key Issues in the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Mega-Events""; ""The Structure and Organization of this Book""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""PART I Creative Destruction, Modernization, and Spectacular Capitalism""
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""2 Beyond Bread and Circuses: Mega-Events as Forces of Creative Destruction""""Introduction""; ""Mega-Events and the Political Economy of Urban Development""; ""Contradictions of Mega-Events""; ""Mega-Events as Contested Terrain""; ""Disruption and Organized Resistance""; ""Mega-Events as Crisis-Prone""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""3 Mega-Events, Media, and the Integrated World of Global Spectacle""; ""Sport and the Integrated Spectacle""; ""Global Sporting Spectacle and Accelerated Culture""; ""Promotional Circulation and the Digitally Networked Media Sport Complex""
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""Social Media, Spectacle, and the Digitally Networked Media-Sport Complex""""Tapping into Sports Mega-Event Spectacles""; ""Political Contradictions and the Integrated Spectacle""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""4 Modernization, Neoliberalism, and Sports Mega-Events: Evolving Discourses in Latin America""; ""Development as Modernization""; ""Mexico’s Olympics and the Dream of Modernization""; ""Brazil’s Neoliberalism: The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro""; ""Contested Visions: From Mexico to Brazil, and Back Again""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""
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""5 Between Madiba Magic and Spectacular Capitalism: The FIFA World Cup in South Africa""""Madiba Magic, the World Cup, and the Allure of Modernity""; ""The Faustian Side of Spectacular Capitalism""; ""Icons of Hope, Icons of Despair""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""PART II States of Exception""; ""6 Mega-Events and the City of Exception: Theoretical Explorations of the Brazilian Experience""; ""From Normative Planning to Flexibility: The New Features of Strategic Power""; ""From Ad Hoc Urbanism to the Exception as a Rule: the City of Exception""
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""Mega-Events and the City: From Flexible Urbanism to the City of Exception in Rio de Janeiro""""Conclusion: The City of Exception is the Direct Democracy of Capital, but also of Resistance""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""7 Mega-Events, Urban Image Construction, and the Politics of Exclusion""; ""Urban Image Construction as an Exclusionary Practice""; ""Mega-Event Strategies for Making Poverty Invisible""; ""Resisting the Mega-Event Spectacle""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""8 Sochi 2014: Politics, Activism, and Repression""; ""Repressive Measures""
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781138805613
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315752174
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315752174
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