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Thinking Barcelona
Edgar Illas
其他書名
Ideologies of a Global City
出版Liverpool University Press, 2012-01-01
主題Social Science / Sociology / UrbanHistory / Europe / Spain
ISBN18463183279781846318320
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xxzgCCQgHk0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Thinking Barcelona studies the ideological work that redefined Barcelona during the 1980s and adapted the city to a new economy of tourism, culture, and services. The 1992 Olympic Games offered to the municipal government a double opportunity to establish an internal consensus and launch
Barcelona as a happy combination of European cosmopolitanism and Mediterranean rootedness. The staging of this municipal euphoric postpolitics, which entailed an extensive process of urban renewal, connects with the similarly exultant contexts of a reviving Catalan nation, post-transitional Spain,
and post-Cold War globalization. The transformation of Barcelona, in turn, contributed to define the ideologies of globalization, as the 1992 Games were among the first global mega-events that celebrated the neoliberal end of history. Three types of materials are examined: political speeches and
scripts of the Olympic ceremonies, with special focus on Xavier Rubert de Ventós's screenplay for the reception of the flame