Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
Death and Events: International Perspectives on Events Marking the End of Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian R Lamond, Ruth Dowson
January 29, 2024
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 ...
Managing and Leveraging Events: Business and Social Dimensions
1st Edition
By Nico Schulenkorf, Katie Schlenker, Hussain Rammal, Jon Welty Peachey, Ashlee Morgan
January 29, 2024
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 ...
Festival and Event Tourism Impacts
1st Edition
Edited
By Dogan Gursoy, Robin Nunkoo, Medet Yolal
November 30, 2023
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 ...
Battlefield Events: Landscape, commemoration and heritage
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Event Mobilities: Politics, place and performance
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Events in the City: Using public spaces as event venues
1st Edition
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 ...
Commemorative Events: Memory, Identities, Conflict
1st Edition
By Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing
May 25, 2017
Commemorative Events emphasise remembering. They are held on the anniversaries of significant past events, either annually or after significant time periods. Commemorative events provide fascinating insight into how societies see themselves, their heritage and their identity. These events however ...
Conferences and Conventions: A Research Perspective
1st Edition
By Judith Mair
May 25, 2017
Conferences and conventions are one of the fastest growing areas of the events industry. This is a substantially important sector yet research into many dimensions is in its infancy. This timely book, uniquely presents a ‘state of the art’ synthesis of the research on both demand and supply sides ...
Event Audiences and Expectations
1st Edition
By Jo Mackellar
May 25, 2017
Event Audiences and Expectations for the first time examines why people participate in festivals and events, the types of events which stimulate participation, and the fanatical antics of fans who become involved in these events. By doing so the book offers significant insight into how event ...
Event Portfolio Planning and Management: A Holistic Approach
1st Edition
By Vassilios Ziakas
May 25, 2017
Cities and regions around the world increasingly capitalize on a series of events aimed at optimizing their reach and outcomes. How then can a series of different events be developed and harnessed? What are the conditions and the means by which synergies and collaboration among different events and...
Event Volunteering.: International Perspectives on the Event Volunteering Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen A. Smith, Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Kirsten Holmes, Tom Baum
May 25, 2017
Volunteers make important contributions across the spectrum of event settings, most visibly at high profile mega events such as the Olympic Games they are volunteers are lauded as ‘Games makers’, ’unsung heroes’ and the like. Less visibly volunteers are the heart and soul of community events and ...
Fashion, Design and Events
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Williams, Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost
May 25, 2017
The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad audiences and may tour the globe. Staging these events might help to brand ...