Mega-Events and Social Change: Spectacle, Legacy and Public Culture (Globalizing Sport Studies) (Hardcover)
Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.
Maurice Roche is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield