Towards a Sociological Analysis of London 2012
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2322183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Silk (0000-0002-7549-0919, University of Bath, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 733-748 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038511413422 |
| OpenAlex | W2147804774 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 65 |
Within this article, I focus on a number of productive scholarly avenues to which sociological analysis of London 2012 might want to attend. Understanding major sporting events - and thus the Olympic Games - as inextricably entangled with the media-industrial complex, I suggest London 2012 as a commodity spectacle that will emphasize gleaming aesthetics, a (sporting) city and nation collapsed into (simple) tourist images, and the presentation of a particular expression of self within the logics of the global market. In so doing, and by peeking behind the seductive, corporate-inspired veil of material and symbolic regeneration, image, strategy and legacy, we, as a field, can ask crucial questions about whose histories, whose representations and which peoples matter to, and for, the sporting spectacle
Aesthetics · Art · Field (mathematics) · Focus (optics) · Media studies · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics) · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Spectacle · The Symbolic · Tourism · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 1,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |