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Event power : how global events manage and manipulate Chris Rojek

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London Sage 2013Description: 202 pages 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780857025173 (hbk.)
  • 9780857025180 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GT3405 ROJ
Contents:
Preface: the goodwill newsletter -- What is event management? -- What are the main types of event? -- Why is 'moral regulation' relevant? -- How is event cognition formulated? -- How are global events organised? -- What do cyclical events do? -- Why are we drawn to events? -- What is event consciousness? -- What do single-issue events do? -- Why are events so emotional? -- What is event appropriation? -- Does event management have a future?
Summary: Argues that events are essential elements in corporate-state partnerships of 'invisible government' that have revived the romance of charity so to form illusory communities, while cloaking power imbalances and social inequalities.... [an] account of communication power, social ordering and control. -- P. [4] of cover.
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Book Book Batanai Library Open Shelf GT3405 ROJ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 148386 Available BK134699

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: the goodwill newsletter -- What is event management? -- What are the main types of event? -- Why is 'moral regulation' relevant? -- How is event cognition formulated? -- How are global events organised? -- What do cyclical events do? -- Why are we drawn to events? -- What is event consciousness? -- What do single-issue events do? -- Why are events so emotional? -- What is event appropriation? -- Does event management have a future?

Argues that events are essential elements in corporate-state partnerships of 'invisible government' that have revived the romance of charity so to form illusory communities, while cloaking power imbalances and social inequalities.... [an] account of communication power, social ordering and control. -- P. [4] of cover.

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