Events and Society (eBook, PDF)

Bridging Theory and Practice
Redaktion: Duignan, Mike

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Events of all shapes and sizes play an important part in all of our lives. They are fun, frivolous, and often allow us to escape from our everyday lives - and they are also fascinating to study and examine in a more serious way, to understand what they mean and what they do for us - individually and collectively. Events in Society, therefore, explores the social impact and sociological implications of designing, planning, and delivering events - cultural events like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; sporting events like the Olympic and Paralympic Games and FIFA World Cup; to music festivals like Glastonbury.

Thirty carefully selected contributions feature, written by global experts in a short and succinct way that are easy to digest, covering a variety of disciplines, fields, contexts, and cases. Every chapter explores a critical issue or debate based on real-life events, and contextualises this within the key theoretical debates, managerial, and policy implications. Throughout, there are linkages to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well as interactive features to aid understanding and spur critical thinking, including learning objectives, quiz questions, and debate questions per chapter.

Some of the topics covered include:

• Uniting nations and people
• Personal experiences and transformations
• Social critique and explorations
• Activism
• Programming and representation
• Health, safety, and security
• Identity and gender
• LGBTQ+
• Environmentalism
• Displacement and exclusion
• Education and participation
• Community development
• Disability and accessibility

This innovative, topical, engaging, and comprehensive book is an essential reading and teaching resource for all students and lecturers in events that are easy to integrate into educational programmes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040310588
• Artikelnr.: 73208619

Autorenporträt

Mike Duignan is a Professor at the Sorbonne, University of Paris 1, France, and the Director of Research, Intelligence, and Education at Trivandi, UK. Since 2021, Mike has been the Editor-in-Chief of the leading peer-reviewed journal for the study and analysis of events, Event Management Journal. Formerly, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, USA; the Director of the UK Olympic Studies Centre; and a Reader and Head of Department at the University of Surrey, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

'Introduction. Introduction. Section 1. Transforming People. 1. How
Festival Encounters Tranform Lives and Landscapes - and Why We Should Care.
2. City Festivals and Social Connection: Post-Plague Lessons from
17th-Century Naples. 3. London 2012: Did it Inspire a Generation? 4. What
Did London 2012 Mean for the Paralympics and the Lives of People with
Disabilities? 5. Has London 2012 Volunteering Programme Engendered a
Sustainable and Wider Volunteering Legacy in the UK? 6. A Critical Review
of the Paralympic Games' Potential to Increase Disabled People's Sport
Participation. 7. How Does Hosting the Olympics Benefit Local Communities?
An Examination of Tokyo 2020. Section 2. Transforming Places. 8. Does
Carnival Still Come First in Rio Even When the Olympics Comes to Town? 9.
Creating Queer Spaces: Small-Town Prides Grow in Numbers and Popularity.
10. Olympics for Whom? Winners and Losers of Mega-events. 11. Who Benefits
when a City Hosts the World Cup? 12. How Hosting the Olympics can Lead to
Displacement. 13. Marginalisation, Displacement, and Exclusion in
Montreal's Cultural Economy. Section 3. Transforming Experiences. 14. The
Roar of the Crowd: How Fans Create Electric Atmospheres. 15. Could Virtual
Reality Change Gigs Forever? 16. Looking Beyond the Screen: Smartphone
Effects on Festival Engagement. 17. The Need for Live Event Security Risk
Management Practices in a Post-COVID-19 World. 18. Strategies for Event
Managers to Safeguard Against Deadly Crowds. Section 4. Transforming
Identity and Perspectives. 19. Black Pete: An Annual Tradition or a
National Embarrassment? 20. Contradictions and Complexities: The Sydney Gay
and Lesbian Mardi Gras, LGBT Tourism Events and Social Reform. 21. Events
and Social Media: The #Euro2020 Online Firestorm. 22. #genderequalOlympics?
Critical Analysis of Gender Equality and the Olympic Games as a Major
Multi-sport Event. 23. Staging the African Renaissance at Africa's First
Black Cultural Festival. 24. Transformative Events: A Migrant Narrative of
Identity and Belonging at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 25. Chale, Let's
Go: The Case of Chale Wote Street Art Festival. Section 5: Transforming our
Environment. 26. Glastonbury and Climate Change: How the World's Most
Iconic Music Festival Puts the Spotlight on Climate Challenges and
Solutions. 27. Concerns about the Social Implications of Sporting Events in
Natural Areas. 28. The Good the Bad and the Noisy: The Paradox(s) Created
by Motorised Events in Green Spaces. 29. London 2012: What the Olympic
Games' Legacy of Sustainability Means for Events Today. 30. March Madness
and Environmental Impacts of Sport Events. Conclusion and Recommendations.