Event Power
Subtitle: How Global Events Manage and Manipulate
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited; SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780857025180
Subjects: Special events; Power (social sciences); Social control
Description: 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. -- back cover