Event power : how global events manage and manipulate
Type
E-Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781446270059
Category
Business-Media, Communication & Cultural Studies
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Publication Year
2013
Publisher
URL
[ private ]
Volume
1
Pages
186
Subject
Sport & Leisure Studies, Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management, General Media, Communication & Cultural Studies
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Abstract
e-book weblink: https://sk.sagepub.com/books/event-power-how-global-events-manage-and-manipulate
Events dominate our screens, our lives, and increasingly global geopolitics. Analysis of events and their management has remained rooted in leisure and management studies - until now. This break-through book provides an introduction to event management, while also situating events in questions of power and social control.
Events dominate our screens, our lives, and increasingly global geopolitics. Analysis of events and their management has remained rooted in leisure and management studies - until now. This break-through book provides an introduction to event management, while also situating events in questions of power and social control.
Description
Rojek powerfully argues that events are essential elements in corporate-state partnerships of ‘invisible government’ that have revived the romance of charity as to form illusory communities, while cloaking power imbalances and social inequalities. Events are moving politics from the old idea of ‘the personal is political’ to the new, more seductive notion that ‘representation is resistance’. Wielding rich case studies from the World Cup and the Olympics to Live Aid, Burning Man and Mardi Gras, Rojek presents a dazzlingly original account of communication power, social ordering and control. It is essential reading in media & communication studies and across the social sciences.
Biblio Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
HdE WaSeSS
Hdig SFX
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