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By Ian R Lamond, Ruth Dowson
November 12, 2021
This unique volume examines death from a socio-cultural events perspective. Drawing on the empirical and conceptual work produced by an international body of researchers, it is the first publication to look at death, dying, memorialization, and their mediation, from an events orientation. By ...
By Nico Schulenkorf, Katie Schlenker, Hussain Rammal, Jon Welty Peachey, Ashlee Morgan
November 11, 2021
This book explores and advances the latest concepts and developments in event management theory and practice. Drawing on the ever-growing event management literature – and supported by theories and concepts from parent disciplines – the book examines challenges and opportunities related to ...
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By Dogan Gursoy, Robin Nunkoo, Medet Yolal
September 18, 2020
Festival and Event Tourism Impacts provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the multi-faceted impacts that festival and events have on a host community, whether positive or negative, and offers recommendations for communities for the successful management of this kind of tourism. Opening ...
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By Trudie Walters, Allan Jepson
January 10, 2019
This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of marginalisation and events. Marginalisation has been the subject of academic research for some time now. For example, marginalisation and exclusion have been identified as problematic in fields as diverse as geography, public health, ...
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By Azizul Hassan, Anukrati Sharma
December 20, 2018
The roles and impacts of planned events within tourism are of increasing importance for destination competitiveness. Tourism Events in Asia is a unique contribution to the understanding of the impacts of events in the development planning, promotion and marketing of destinations in the rapidly ...
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By Rebecca Finkel, Briony Sharp, Majella Sweeney
October 23, 2018
Most early social research into planned events had the effect of broadcasting narratives of dominant cultures and privileged groups. More recently, however, convergences of gender, sexualities, ethnicities, age, class, religion, and intersectional analyses and events studies have started to drive ...
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By Keir Reeves, Geoffrey Bird, Laura James, Birger Stichelbaut, Jean Bourgeois
April 25, 2018
Battlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritage is an investigative and analytical study into the way in which significant landscapes of war have been constructed and imagined through events over time to articulate specific narratives and denote consequence and identity. The book charts ...
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By Kevin Hannam, Mary Mostafanezhad, Jillian Rickly
April 25, 2018
Events from a mobilities perspective attend to moments in which individual networks coalesce in place but are not isolated in their performance as they often foster far-reaching and mobile networks of community. In so doing, individuals travel from varying distances to participate in localized ...
By Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost
December 14, 2017
Royal events such as coronations and jubilees encompass a wide spectrum of planned events involving monarchs and their families that are strategically designed to reinforce the role of royalty within social and political structures. Royal events may have a long heritage, but often involve ...
By Allan Jepson, Alan Clarke
November 13, 2017
Whether through education, sport or festivity, events form the basis on which we attribute cultural meaning, significance and value to our lives. In this light, community events have the potential to create positive and negative social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts within the ...
By Andrew Smith
October 12, 2017
Cities are staging more events than ever. Within this macro-trend, there is another less acknowledged trend: more events are being staged in public spaces. Some events have always been staged in parks, streets and squares, but in recent years events have been taken out of traditional venues and ...
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By Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing
September 25, 2017
This book is the first to take an in-depth examination of the breadth and scope of exhibitions, trade fairs and other industrial events as a marketing tool or channel. Industrial Events are planned events that are staged with the primary aim of marketing businesses, industries and products. This ...
