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Subject(s)

• Olympic Games (32nd 2021 Tokyo, Japan) [Browse]
• Special events—Japan—Tokyo—Management [Browse]
• Risk management—Japan—Tokyo [Browse]
• Olympics—Economic aspects—Japan [Browse]

Series

Routledge advances in sociology. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book advances an alternative critical posthumanist approach to mega-event organisation, taking into account both the new and the old crises which humanity and our planet face. Taking the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a case study, Tzanelli explores mega-event crisis and risk management in the era of extreme urbanisation, natural disasters, global pandemic, and technoscientific control. Capturing the atmospheric term 'irradiation': a technology of glamour and transparency, as well as bodily penetration by harmful agents and strong affects, the book explores this epistemological statement diachronically (via Tokyo's relationship with Western forms of domination) and synchronically (the city as a global cultural-political player but victim of climate catastrophes). It presents how the 'Olympic enterprises' flattening' of indigenous environmental place-making rhythms, the scientisation of space and place in the Anthropocene leads to reductionisms harmful for a viable programme of planetary recovery. An experimental study of the mega-event is enacted, which considers the researcher's analytical tools and the styles of human and non-human mobility during the mega-event as reflexive gateways to forms of posthuman flourishing. Crossing and bridging disciplinary boundaries, the book will appeal to any scholar interested in mobilities theory, event and environment studies, sociology of knowledge and cultural globalisation"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• 1. Introducing a risky experiment
• 2. Pilgrimage in Tokyo
• 3. The birth of the Japanese CineKiki
• 4. The dreams of the Japanese CineKiki
• 5. The ceremonies of the Japanese CineKiki
• 6. The life and death of the Japanese CineKiki
• 7. The journeys of the Japanese CineKiki: bodies and no-bodies
• 8. Conclusion: the chronicles of a biotechnical crime.

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ISBN

• 1-00-331454-6
• 1-000-77337-X
• 1-003-31454-6
• 1-000-77341-8

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