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 โ and supported by theories and concepts from parent disciplines โ the book examines challenges and opportunities related to ...
Festival and Event Tourism Impacts
1st Edition
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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 ...
Power, Construction and Meaning in Festivals
1st Edition
By Allan Jepson, Alan Clarke
July 12, 2022
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 ...
Royal Events: Rituals, Innovations, Meanings
1st Edition
By Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost
July 12, 2022
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 ...
Marginalisation and Events
1st Edition
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By Trudie Walters, Allan Stewart Jepson
June 14, 2022
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, ...
Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Event Studies
1st Edition
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By Rebecca Finkel, Briony Sharp, Majella Sweeney
June 13, 2022
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 ...
Approaches and Methods in Event Studies
1st Edition
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By Tomas Pernecky
December 13, 2021
The recent proliferation of events as a subject of study in its own right has signalled the emergence of a new field โ event studies. However, whilst the management-inspired notion of planned events, which strives for conceptual slenderness, may indeed be useful for event managers, the moment we ...
Critical Event Studies
1st Edition
By Karl Spracklen, Ian R. Lamond
December 13, 2021
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 ...
Exhibitions, Trade Fairs and Industrial Events
1st Edition
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By Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing
December 13, 2021
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 ...
Festival Encounters: Theoretical Perspectives on Festival Events
1st Edition
By Michelle Duffy, Judith Mair
December 13, 2021
Festivals and events are of enormous significance to many communities around the world. They can have historic, religious, cultural and traditional significance, and they are also important parts of community building.This book focuses on these small-scale, non-metropolitan events (i.e. rural, ...
Tourism Events in Asia: Marketing and Development
1st Edition
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By Azizul Hassan, Anukrati Sharma
December 13, 2021
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 ...