TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rojek,Chris
TI  - Event power: how global events manage and manipulate 
SN  - 9780857025173 (hbk.)
U1  - 394.2068 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE publications
KW  - Special events
KW  - Management
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Social control
KW  - Grossveranstaltung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Event-Marketing
KW  - Politik
KW  - Auswirkung
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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
ER  -