Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies: Globalization, Environment, Resistance
Graeme Hayes (Ed.)
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Description for Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies: Globalization, Environment, Resistance
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Hayes, Graeme; Karamichas, John. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSG; JHBS; RN; WSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Global Culture and Sport Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230244177
SKU
V9780230244177
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Graeme Hayes (Ed.)
ANNE-MARIE BROUDEHOUX Professor in the School of Design at the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada PIETRO CARATTI was former Senior Research Fellow at FEEM (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei) and now works for the Presidency of the Lombardy Region, Italy EGIDIO DANSERO Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Turin, Italy HUGH DAUNCEY Senior Lecturer at ... Read more
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