Name: Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games (en Inglés)
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Author: Boykoff, Jules
ISBN: 9781138805262

portada Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jules Boykoff

Editorial

Routledge

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

174

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

Peso

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781138805262

N° edición

Categorías

Sociología del deporte y el ocio
Juegos olímpicos y paralímpicos

Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games (en Inglés)

Jules Boykoff (Autor) · Routledge · Tapa Blanda

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The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event--a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions. 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 centre 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 drive 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, characterised by a state of exception, unfettered commercialism, repression of dissent, and the complicity of the mainstream media.Controversial, challenging and forthright, this book opens up a fascinating new avenue for understanding the contemporary Olympics in the context of global capitalist society. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympic Games, the relationship between sport and society, or global politics and culture.