Mega-events and the city - Critical Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mega-events and the city - Critical Perspectives write by Carlos Vainer. This book was released on . Mega-events and the city - Critical Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, mega-events as Olympics, international exhibitions and especially the World Cup have put into action all kinds of capitals, reconfigured territorial scales of power and produced a discourse about competitiveness, urbanism and global cities that proclaims convergence between public and private interests.
Mega-Events, City and Power
Mega-Events, City and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mega-Events, City and Power write by Nelma Gusmão de Oliveira. This book was released on 2020-10-21. Mega-Events, City and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced. It adopts Bourdieu's concept of field to explore the interests and disputes involved in the production of sports mega-events across different times and spaces and the role of host cities in these processes. It aims to identify the bases that give these spectacles the power to produce disruptions in the social fabric of the host cities and countries, and to enable the production of authoritarian forms of exercising power. By observing the historical constitution of the field of production of sport spectacle as an autonomous field, this book explores how sport mega-events create both an arena and a context for radical expressions of authoritarianism of neoliberal planning models. It will be of interest to students, scholars and professionals in architecture and urban studies, urban planning, municipal governance, sport and leisure studies, and those interested in the relationship between State and capital in the production of urban space.
Mega-Events and Globalization
Mega-Events and Globalization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mega-Events and Globalization write by Richard Gruneau. This book was released on 2015-10-05. Mega-Events and Globalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the turn of the twenty first century, there has been a trend for urban "mega events" to be awarded to cities and nations in the East and Global South. Such events have been viewed as economic stimulant as well as opportunities to promote national identity, gain greater international recognition and exercise a form of 'soft power.' However, there has also been on-going controversy about the value, impact and legacy of global mega events in these cities and nations. This book provides a critical examination of the ambition for spectacle that has emerged across the East and Global South. The chapters explore the theoretical and conceptual issues associated with mega-events and new forms of globalization, from the critical political economy of mega-events in a changing world order to the contested social and economic legacies of mega-events and the widespread opposition that increasingly accompanies these events. The book also explores questions of urban development and governance, the role of new communications technologies in global economic expansion, the high security State, and the growing global influence of international non-governmental organizations. This book offers a rich collection of original theoretical contributions and global case studies from leading international scholars from the social sciences and humanities. It offers a fresh and unique interdisciplinary perspective that synthesizes cutting edge research on mega-events and urban spectacles while simultaneously contributing to a broader understanding of the dynamics of global capitalism and international political power in the early twenty first century.
Mega-Event Mobilities
Mega-Event Mobilities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mega-Event Mobilities write by Noel B. Salazar. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Mega-Event Mobilities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entail global exposure and intense struggles by different stakeholders. This is the first book to examine sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. It analyses the ‘mobile construction’ of global sports mega-events and the role this plays in managing labour, imaginaries, policies and legacies. In particular, the book focuses on the tension between the various mobilities and immobilities that are implied in the process of constructing a mega-event. It seeks to uncover the ways in which an event is a series of fluid interactions that occur sequentially and simultaneously at multiple scales in diverse spheres of interaction. Contributions explore the dynamics through which mega-events occur, revealing the textures and nuance of the complex systems that sustain them, and the ways that events ramify throughout the international system.
Mega-Event Mobilities
Mega-Event Mobilities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mega-Event Mobilities write by Noel B. Salazar. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Mega-Event Mobilities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entail global exposure and intense struggles by different stakeholders. This is the first book to examine sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. It analyses the ‘mobile construction’ of global sports mega-events and the role this plays in managing labour, imaginaries, policies and legacies. In particular, the book focuses on the tension between the various mobilities and immobilities that are implied in the process of constructing a mega-event. It seeks to uncover the ways in which an event is a series of fluid interactions that occur sequentially and simultaneously at multiple scales in diverse spheres of interaction. Contributions explore the dynamics through which mega-events occur, revealing the textures and nuance of the complex systems that sustain them, and the ways that events ramify throughout the international system.
