Mediating cosmopolitanism: crafting an allegorical imperative through Beijing 2008

Tzanelli, Rodanthi

doi:10.1080/03906701.2010.487666

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“…sweepstakes, ceasing work for the duration of the race, and champagne breakfasts) serve as consumerist rituals that reinforce spiritually the Australian identity of individual attendees (Cusack and Digance, 2009). Recent Olympic mega-events, such as Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016, staged native cultures and histories in spiritual styles involving shared ethnic memories, traumatic incidents, and contributions to world civilization all at the same time (Tzanelli, 2010(Tzanelli, , 2013b(Tzanelli, , 2017. Through blends of audio-visual (broadcast segments) and embodied (live cultural performances) forms of staging the host city's and nation's culture, megaevent ceremonies re-created native atmospheres and environments for global consumption: as regional myths, characters and artifacts upgraded to national symbols (Beijing 2008); labor utopias connected to the Industrial Revolution (London 2012); cultures of migration and community-making stemming from dance forms and music traditions, such as samba (Rio 2016); and hybridized local-global forms of tradition and modernity in new media spheres (Tokyo 2020 handover).…”

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Interscopic fan travelscape: Hybridizing tourism through sport and art

2022

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Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive from blending different genres that enable symbiotic effects, for example, between sport and art. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of how event-tourism is interwoven and merged with sporting and cinematic popular culture, thereby creating a compound milieu for sport traveling aficionados that we name an “ Interscopic Fan Travelscape” (IFT). To ground our analysis, we use the example of a participatory sport event that blends organically sporting and cinematic facets of popular culture. This is a free-diving event, hosted in the Greek island of Amorgos, and commemorating the 1988 “Big Blue” film, which was primarily shot in Amorgos. Our conceptual framework provides a comprehensive understanding of composite popular culture settings and devoted fan-travel by integrating perspectives of neo-tribalism, serious leisure, fan pilgrimage and event-tourism.

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Interscopic fan travelscape: Hybridizing tourism through sport and art

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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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The term's Germanic origins make it compatible and contextually relevant to the thesis Norbert Elias later outlined in the Civilising Process (Elias, 1978, 1982), which covered both state monopolies of violence and the management of human manners and emotions. In Nietzsche's writings ressentiment refers to feelings of imaginary vengeance powerless groups project onto powerful (collective or individual) sociocultural agents. Highlighting (mis)communications between feeling, emotion, fantasy, and action, but also psychological analysis, political planning, and sociological interpretation of the world, the term was borne out of a Franco‐German political conflict (1870–1871) that adumbrated later controversies over the alleged “clash of [Eastern‐Western] civilisations” (Huntington, 1993).

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The Age of Urban Transformation in China: From a Wishful List of Urban Growth to Development-Centered Reality

Cheshmehzangi,

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2024

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Mediating cosmopolitanism: crafting an allegorical imperative through Beijing 2008

Cited by 4 publications

References 52 publications

Interscopic fan travelscape: Hybridizing tourism through sport and art

Interscopic fan travelscape: Hybridizing tourism through sport and art

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The Age of Urban Transformation in China: From a Wishful List of Urban Growth to Development-Centered Reality

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