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Mega-Events and Globalization- Front Cover 1 Mega-Events and Globalization 2 Title Page 8 Copyright Page 9 Contents 10 Contributors 12 Chapter 1: Mega-events and globalization: A critical introduction 14 Mega-events, academic writing, and the project of this book 15 Key issues in the critical analysis of contemporary mega-events 21 The structure and organization of this book 32 Acknowledgments 36 Notes 36 Bibliography 38 Part I: Creative destruction, modernization, and spectacular capitalism 42 Chapter 2: Beyond bread and circuses: Mega-events as forces of creative destruction 44 Introduction 44 Mega-events and the political economy of urban development 46 Contradictions of mega-events 48 Mega-events as contested terrain 50 Disruption and organized resistance 51 Mega-events as crisis-prone 53 Conclusion 54 Notes 56 Bibliography 57 Chapter 3: Mega-events, media, and the integrated world of global spectacle 61 Sport and the integrated spectacle 62 Global sporting spectacle and accelerated culture 63 Promotional circulation and the digitally networked media sport complex 65 Social media, spectacle, and the digitally networked media-sport complex 67 Tapping into

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Author

Richard Gruneau, John Horne

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction