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 societi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hayes, Graeme (Editor), Karamichas, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
Series:Global Culture and Sport
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XIII, 292 p online resource
ISBN:9780230359185