This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.
Language
English
Pages
312
Format
Hardcover
Release
December 20, 2011
ISBN 13
9780230244177
Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies: Globalization, Environment, Resistance
This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.