Description
Book SynopsisWithin 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 ad
Table of Contents1. Critical Event Studies: Theories and Practices
2. Events and Contested Space (Real and Virtual)
3. Event Mediatization
4. Events and Power
5. Events and Memory
6. Commodification of Events
7. Protests as Events
8. The Colonization of Event Discourse
9. Resilience and Events
10. Events and Misrule
11. Can there be an Emancipatory Events Studies?
12. Events Histories and Narratives
13. Conclusion
