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Critical Event Studies (Paperback)
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Critical Event Studies (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
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Within events management, events are commonly categorised within
two axes, size and content. Along the size axis events range
between the small scale and local, through major events, which
garner greater media interest, to internationally significant
hallmark and mega events such as the Edinburgh Festival and the
Tour de France. Content is frequently divided into three forms -
culture, sport or business. However, such frameworks overlook and
depoliticise a significant variety of events, those more accurately
construed as protest. This book brings together new research and
theories from around the world and across sociology, leisure
studies, politics and cultural studies to develop a new critical
pedagogy and critical theory of events. It is the first research
monograph that deals explicitly with the concept of critical event
studies (CES), the idea that it is impossible to explore and
understand events without understanding the wider social, cultural
and political contexts. It addresses questions such as can the
occupation and reclamation of specific spaces by activists be
understood as events within its framework? And is the activity of
activists in these spaces a leisure activity? If those, and other
similar activities, can be read as events and leisure, what does
admitting them into the scope of events management and leisure
studies mean for our understanding of them and how the study of
events management is to be conceptualised? This title will be of
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on events
management and related courses and scholars interested in
understanding the ways in which events are constructed by the
social, the cultural and the political.
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