Event power : how global events manage and manipulate
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
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9781446275276, 9781299483729, 9781446291580, 9781446270059, 1446275272, 1299483720, 1446291588, 144627005X
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COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE: THE GOODWILL NEWSLETTER; 1. WHAT IS EVENT MANAGEMENT?; 2. WHAT ARE THE MAIN TYPES OF EVENT?; 3. WHY IS 'MORAL REGULATION' RELEVANT?; 4. HOW IS EVENT COGNITION FORMULATED?; 5. HOW ARE GLOBAL EVENTS ORGANISED?; 6. WHAT DO CYCLICAL EVENTS DO?; 7. WHY ARE WE DRAWN TO EVENTS?; 8. WHAT IS EVENT CONSCIOUSNESS?; 9. WHAT DO SINGLE-ISSUE EVENTS DO?; 10. WHY ARE EVENTS SO EMOTIONAL?; 11. WHAT IS EVENT APPROPRIATION?; 12. DOES EVENT MANAGEMENT HAVE A FUTURE?; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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