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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.
* Draws on the experience of highly regarded interdisciplinary
researchers from all over the world. * The first work to examine
the relationship between the field of event studies and death
studies, through empirical and conceptual research
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.
This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of
liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of
events. It will be of interest to researchers in event studies,
social and discursive psychology, cultural and political sociology,
and social movement studies. In addition, it will provide
interested general readers with new ways of thinking and reflecting
on events. Contributing authors undertake a discussion of the
borders, boundaries, and areas of contestation between the
established social anthropological concept of liminality and the
emerging field of critical event studies. By drawing these two
perspectives closer together, the collection considers tensions and
resonances between them, and uses those connections to enhance our
understanding of both cultural and sporting events and offer fresh
insight into events of activism, protest, and dissent.
This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of
liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of
events. It will be of interest to researchers in event studies,
social and discursive psychology, cultural and political sociology,
and social movement studies. In addition, it will provide
interested general readers with new ways of thinking and reflecting
on events. Contributing authors undertake a discussion of the
borders, boundaries, and areas of contestation between the
established social anthropological concept of liminality and the
emerging field of critical event studies. By drawing these two
perspectives closer together, the collection considers tensions and
resonances between them, and uses those connections to enhance our
understanding of both cultural and sporting events and offer fresh
insight into events of activism, protest, and dissent.
This book brings together the established field of political
communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to
develop new questions and approaches. Using this combined
framework, it reflects upon how we should understand the expression
of democratic participation in mainstream mass media during the
2015 UK General Election and the 2016 referendum on Britain's
membership of the EU. Are we now living in an era where democratic
participation is much more concerned with spectacle rather than
substantive debate? The book addresses this conceptual journey and
reflects on differing models of democratic participation, before
applying that framework to the two identified case studies.
Finally, the authors consider what it means to be living in a
period of democratic spectacle, where political events have become
evental politics. The book will be of use to students and scholars
across the fields of political science and culture and media
studies, as well as wide readers interested in the current issues
facing British politics.
This book brings together the established field of political
communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to
develop new questions and approaches. Using this combined
framework, it reflects upon how we should understand the expression
of democratic participation in mainstream mass media during the
2015 UK General Election and the 2016 referendum on Britain's
membership of the EU. Are we now living in an era where democratic
participation is much more concerned with spectacle rather than
substantive debate? The book addresses this conceptual journey and
reflects on differing models of democratic participation, before
applying that framework to the two identified case studies.
Finally, the authors consider what it means to be living in a
period of democratic spectacle, where political events have become
evental politics. The book will be of use to students and scholars
across the fields of political science and culture and media
studies, as well as wide readers interested in the current issues
facing British politics.
Critical Event Studies is a growing field, not just within event
management and event studies, but across the traditional and
digital social sciences. This volume -with contributions from a
range of international scholars- is the first to consider the wide
variety of research approaches being used by academics from around
the world, whose interests lie within the reach of this emerging
field. Each chapter uses one or more case examples to present and
discuss different methodological approaches applicable to research
within critical event studies. Students and academics alike will
find inspiration and critical reflection on methodology that can
support their own projects.
This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection,
empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring
at the juncture of critical approaches in leisure studies and event
studies within diverse explorations of deviance. It includes
chapters on games and gaming; performing queerness; events
around being kinkster;Â drugs and sex, LGBTQ+ events and
activism, and goth subculture. These are combined with
poetry, personal reflection and artwork, much of which has
been created by contributors. The compendium draws on inquiry
undertaken by contributors from a wide spectrum of academic
disciplines, as well as deviant leisure practitioners/event
organisers. It seeks to expand the cultural and academic
articulation of deviance into other disciplines and
to develop new perspectives on deviant leisure and deviant
leisure practice. It speaks to students, researchers, and
practitioners working or interested in critical leisure and event
studies, queer theory, cultural theory, burlesque/circus studies,
media studies, and discourse studies.
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.
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.
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