Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination: Creating Atmospheres for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020

ISBN-13: 9780367890872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str.

Rodanthi Tzanelli

Opis

Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination argues that the ‘Olympic City’ is produced by aesthetic 'imagineers', mobile groups of architects, artists and entrepreneurs, who aesthetically ‘engineer’ native cultures as utopias. Tzanelli examines how these imagineers problematize notions of creativity, cosmopolitan togetherness and belongin

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1 -- Staging the mega-event: Militourist imaginaries in an Olympic city

CHAPTER 2 -- Globalising utopias: Imagineering the Olympic event, making the world

Homo mobilis: Beyond traditional bio-politics

CHAPTER 3 -- Tomorrow never comes: Rio’s museum of our futures

CHAPTER 4 -- Choreomobility and artistic worldmaking: Retrieving Rio’s submerged centre

Shrinking budgets, shrinking worlds?

CHAPTER 5 -- The Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Migration, nostalgia and the making of tourism mobilities

CHAPTER 6 -- Tokyo 2020: Urban amnesia and the techno-romantic spirit of capitalism

CHAPTER 7 -- The Handover Ceremony: Digital gift economies in a global city

CHAPTER 8 -- Conclusion: Dark journeys and hopeful futures

O autorze

Rodanthi Tzanelli is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK