Protests as Events - Politics, Activism and Leisure (Paperback)

Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal resistance be understood as events? Within the field of Events Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three categories-culture, sport or business. Such a typology can be helpful as a heuristic for interpretation and analysis within a commercial paradigm. However, this framework overlooks and depoliticizes a significant variety of events, those more accurately construed as protest. Protests as Events is the first book to explore activism as a leisure activity and protests as events; using a fresh interpretation of event to develop a new critical politics of events and leisure. Bringing together a range of cutting edge research from around the world, it explores a variety of protests through the lens of events studies and leisure in order to understand how the study of events management might be conceptualized in the protest space.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2014
Editors:	Ian R. Lamond • Karl Spracklen
Dimensions:	228 x 154 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-78348-077-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78348-077-7
Barcode:	9781783480777

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