1st Edition
Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination Creating Atmospheres for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020
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
Biography
Rodanthi Tzanelli is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK
