Mega-Events and Globalization: Capital and spectacle in a changing world order

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Mega-Events and Globalization- Front Cover Mega-Events and Globalization Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Chapter 1: Mega-events and globalization: A critical introduction Mega-events, academic writing, and the project of this book Key issues in the critical analysis of contemporary mega-events The structure and organization of this book Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Part I: Creative destruction, modernization, and spectacular capitalism Chapter 2: Beyond bread and circuses: Mega-events as forces of creative destruction Introduction Mega-events and the political economy of urban development Contradictions of mega-events Mega-events as contested terrain Disruption and organized resistance Mega-events as crisis-prone Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: Mega-events, media, and the integrated world of global spectacle Sport and the integrated spectacle Global sporting spectacle and accelerated culture Promotional circulation and the digitally networked media sport complex Social media, spectacle, and the digitally networked media-sport complex Tapping into sports mega-event spectacles Political contradictions and the integrated spectacle Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 4: M odernization, neoliberalism, and sports mega-events: Evolving discourses in Latin America Development as modernization Mexico’s Olympics and the dream of modernization Brazil’s neoliberalism: the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Contested visions: from Mexico to Brazil, and back again Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 5: Between Madiba Magic and spectacular capitalism: The FIFA World Cup in South Africa Madiba Magic, the World Cup, and the allure of modernity The Faustian side of spectacular capitalism Icons of hope, icons of despair Conclusion Notes Bibliography Part II: States of exception Chapter 6: M ega-events and the city of exception: Theoretical explorations of the Brazilian experience From normative planning to flexibility: the new features of strategic power From ad hoc urbanism to the exception as a rule: the city of exception Mega-events and the city: from flexible urbanism to the city of exception in Rio de Janeiro Conclusion: the city of exception is the direct democracy of capital, but also of resistance Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: Mega-events, urban image construction, and the politics of exclusion Urban image construction as an exclusionary practice Mega-event strategies for making poverty invisible Resisting the mega-event spectacle Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 8: Sochi 2014: Politics, activism, and repression Repressive measures Political activism and the Sochi 2014 Games An Olympic pivot? Notes Bibliography Chapter 9 : The World Cup, the security state, and the colonized Other: Reflections on Brazil, Russia, South Africa, and Qatar The security state and the management of dissent 2022 is not 2010: on relationality and the postcolonial other The signification of race Notes Bibliography Part III: Economies of events and experiences Chapter 10: The urban impacts of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil Introduction “Winning” the Copa? Porto Alegre and the shifting tones of dialogue Curitiba: from urban poster child to dysfunctional planning syndrome São Paulo: political conjunctures produce urban impacts Taking projects out of the drawer in Cuiabá Privatization, removals, and resistance in Rio de Janeiro Creative destruction and the destruction of creativity in Salvador Natal, Manaus, and Brasília: the march of the white elephants Fortaleza: a new wave of city marketing Recife: World Cup stadium as Boi de Piranha Belo Horizonte: collapsing into path dependency Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: China meets Korea: The Asian Games, entrepreneurial local states, and debt-driven development Local state entrepreneurialism and urban development Spatial manifestation of regional developmental aspirations Debt-driven speculative development Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Chapter 12: Mega-events of the future: The experience economy, the Korean connection, and the growth of eSport Introduction eSport in the economy of experiences and events The eSport Korean connection Public contests and institutional supports for eSport Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index