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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2012, 2012
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Series: | Global Culture and Sport
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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 |
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Physical Description: | XIII, 292 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9780230359185 |