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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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-349-31881-0
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publication townLondon
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date01/01/2012
Edition1st ed. 2012
SeriesGlobal Culture and Sport Series
Pages292 pages
LanguageEnglish
IllustrationsXIII, 292 p.
Article no.1575457
CatalogsVLB
Data source no.4ef107d95f8e40daa13cd07fe2a8dad4
Product groupBU660
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ANNE-MARIE BROUDEHOUX Professor in the School of Design at the University of Quebec at Montreal, CanadaPIETRO CARATTI was former Senior Research Fellow at FEEM (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei) and now works for the Presidency of the Lombardy Region, ItalyEGIDIO DANSERO Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Turin, ItalyHUGH DAUNCEY Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, UKBARBARA DEL CORPO Graduate in International Relations of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Turin, Italy and is a collaborator with the University's OMERO (Olympics and Mega Events Research Observatory) groupLUDOVICO FERRAGUTO Research Fellow at Rome-based I-COM, ItalyJOHN HORNE Professor of Sport and Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire, UKALFREDO MELA Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino, ItalyARTHUR P. J. MOL Professor in Environmental Policy at Wageningen University, The NetherlandsJEAN-FRANCOIS POLO Lecturer in Political Science at IEP Rennes, FranceXAVIER RENOU Activist and researcher. He is the founder of Les Désobéissants, an informal network of activists, based in FranceIRENE ROPOLO Collaborator with the University of Turin's OMERO (Olympics and Mega Events Research Observatory) groupDAVID WHITSON Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaLEI ZHANG Assistant Professor in the Environmental Policy Research Group, Wageningen University, TheNetherlands

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