bokomslag Space, Mobility, and Crisis in Mega-Event Organisation
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Space, Mobility, and Crisis in Mega-Event Organisation

Rodanthi Tzanelli

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  • 188 sidor
  • 2024
This book advances an alternative critical posthumanist approach to mega-event organisation, taking into account both the new and the old crises which humanity and our planet face. Taking the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a case study, Tzanelli explores mega-event crisis and risk management in the era of extreme urbanisation, natural disasters, global pandemic, and technoscientific control. Using the atmospheric term irradiation (a technology of glamour and transparency, as well as bodily penetration by harmful agents and strong affects), the book explores this epistemological statement diachronically (via Tokyos relationship with Western forms of domination) and synchronically (the city as a global cultural-political player but victim of climate catastrophes). It presents how the Olympic enterprises flattening of indigenous environmental place-making rhythms, and the scientisation of space and place in the Anthropocene lead to reductionisms harmful for a viable programme of planetary recovery. An experimental study of the mega-event is enacted, which considers the researchers analytical tools and the styles of human and non-human mobility during the mega-event as reflexive gateways to forms of posthuman flourishing. Crossing and bridging disciplinary boundaries, the book will appeal to any scholar interested in mobilities theory, event and environment studies, sociology of knowledge, and cultural globalisation.
  • Författare: Rodanthi Tzanelli
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781032323428
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 188
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-05-27
  • Förlag: Routledge