Critical Event Studies, Paperback by Spracklen, Karl; Lamond, Ian R., Like Ne...

by Spracklen, Karl; Lamond, Ian R.

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Critical Event Studies, Paperback by Spracklen, Karl; Lamond, Ian R., ISBN 1032242477, ISBN-13 9781032242477, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 s

• ISBN: 9781032242477
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