Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
- Indbinding:
- Hardback
- Sideantal:
- 174
- Udgivet:
- 11. juli 2013
- Størrelse:
- 170x236x15 mm.
- Vægt:
- 412 g.
- 8-11 hverdage.
- 20. november 2024
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Beskrivelse af Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a massive planned economy designed to shield the rich from risk while providing them with a spectacle to treasure. Placing political economy at the center of the analysis, and drawing on interdisciplinary research in sociology, politics, geography, history, and economics, Boykoff develops an innovative theory of "celebration capitalism", the manipulation of state actors as partners that drives us towards public-private partnerships in which the public pays and the private profits. He argues that the Athens Games in 2004 marked the full emergence of celebration capitalism, with London 2012 representing its quintessential expression, characterized by a state of exception, unfettered commercialism, repression of dissent, questionable sustainability claims, and the complicity of the mainstream media.This book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympic Games, the relationship between sport and society, or global politics and culture.
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