New PDF release: Mega-Events and Globalization: Capital and Spectacle in a

Since the flip of the 21st century, there was a pattern for city "mega occasions" to be presented to towns and international locations within the East and worldwide South. Such occasions were seen as fiscal stimulant in addition to possibilities to advertise nationwide identification, achieve larger foreign acceptance and workout a sort of 'soft power.' notwithstanding, there has additionally been on-going controversy concerning the worth, influence and legacy of world mega occasions in those towns and international locations.

This ebook offers a serious exam of the ambition for spectacle that has emerged around the East and international South. The chapters discover the theoretical and conceptual matters linked to mega-events and new kinds of globalization, from the severe political economic climate of mega-events in a altering global order to the contested social and financial legacies of mega-events and the frequent competition that more and more accompanies those occasions. The publication additionally explores questions of city improvement and governance, the function of recent communications applied sciences in worldwide monetary growth, the excessive safeguard nation, and the becoming international effect of foreign non-governmental organizations.

This ebook bargains a wealthy selection of unique theoretical contributions and international case reports from best overseas students from the social sciences and arts. It bargains a clean and specific interdisciplinary point of view that synthesizes leading edge study on mega-events and concrete spectacles whereas at the same time contributing to a broader knowing of the dynamics of world capitalism and overseas political energy within the early 21st century.