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Title: OLYMPIC GAMES, MEGA-EVENTS AND CIVIL SOCIETIES
GLOBALIZATION, ENVIRONMENT, RESISTANCE
By: Graeme Hayes (Editor), John Karamichas (Editor)
Format: Hardback

List price: £89.99


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ISBN 10: 0230244173
ISBN 13: 9780230244177
Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 8 November, 2011
Series: Global Culture and Sport Series
Pages: 292
Description: This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.
Synopsis: This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.
Illustrations: XIII, 292 p.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Returns: Returnable
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