Olympic Games, mega-events and civil societies: globalization, environment, resistance

Olympic Games, mega-events and civil societies: globalization, environment, resistance

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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. GRAEME HAYES Senior Lecturer and Director of French Studies at Aston University, UK. He has previously published 'Environmental Protest and the State inFrance'. . JOHN KARAMICHAS Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. He has recently published articles on environmental politics and policy in the 'Journal of Modern Greek Studies', 'South European Society and Politics', 'European Environment', 'Human Ecology Review', and 'Environmental Politics'. INDICE: List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Sports Mega-Events, Sustainable Development, and Civil Societies; 'G.Hayes '&' J.Karamichas - 'The Four 'Cs' of Sports Mega-Events: Capitalism, Connections, Citizenship and Contradictions; 'J.Horne' - Civilizing Beijing: Social Beautification, Civility and Citizenship at the 2008 Olympics; 'A.Broudehoux' - Istanbul's Olympic Challenge: A Passport for Europe?; 'J.Polo'- The Failed Bid for Lyon '68 and France's Winter Olympics from Grenoble '68 to Annecy 2018: French Politics, Civil Society and Olympic Mega-Events; 'H.Dauncey' - The Role of Environmental Issues in Mega-Events Planning and Management Processes: Which Factors Count?; 'P.Caratti '&' L.Ferraguto - 'Sustainability as Global Norm: The Greening of Meag-Events in China; 'A.Mol '&' L.Zhang ' -Olympic Games as an Opportunity for the Ecological Modernization of the Host Nation: The Cases of Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; 'J.Karamichas' - What Happens When Olympic Bids Fail? Sustainable Development and Paris 2012; 'G.Hayes' - Olympic Games, Conflicts and Social Movements: The Case of Torino 2006; 'E.Dansero, B.Corpo, Al.Mela '& 'I.Ropolo' - Vancouver 2010: The Saga of Eagleride Bluffs; 'D.Whitson' - Resisting the Torch; 'X.Renou' - Conclusion: Sports Mega-Events: Disputed Places, Structural Contradictions and Critical Moments; 'G.Hayes '&' J.Karamichas' - Bibliography - Index

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-24417-7
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 312
  • Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés