Ideological, Social and Cultural Aspects of Events.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moufakkir, O., author.

Contributor:

Pernecky, T.

C.A.B. International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Festivals--Social aspects.

Festivals.

Special events.

Social aspects.

Community development.

Group identity.

Special events--Social aspects.

Local Subjects:

Community development.

Festivals--Social aspects.

Group identity.

Special events--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Place of Publication:

Wallingford : CABI, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

There is an ever growing importance of events in modern society and until now existing literature on events has been dominated by the economic perspective. Social and Cultural Aspects of Events addresses the social and cultural side of events and explores the role they have in fostering change and community development. It examines the transformatory function of events in the context of development studies - as phenomena that can promote and facilitate human development, including social, societal and individual change.

Contents:

Ideological, Social and CulturalAspects of Events; Copyright; Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Preface; 1: Events as Societal Phenomena; Introduction; Recent Developments and the Basis for this Book; Events and Society; What's Rome Got to Do with It?; Conclusions; References; 2: Events in the Liquid Modern World: The Call for Fluid Acumen in the Presentation of Peoples, Places, Pasts and Presents; Introduction: Events Under Liquid Modernity; Events and public culture: the agora under liquid modernity;

Events and public culture: the postulated identities of the globalizing/glocalizing world; Events and public culture: the call for plural knowability; Background: The Crisis of Representation in Event Management/Development - Further Recent Interpretations on Event 'Leverage'; The strategic reach of events: events as secular pilgrimage - events as commodified aesthetics; Caveat - the liquid modern 'cemetry of events'; 'New Wave' Conceptualizations: Plural Knowability of and about 'Events'; Recap: the liberation of research into the politics and poesis of 'events';

Ten platform arenas for study: ten matching underutilized conceptual approachesThe social correlations of events; The cultural correlations of events; The psychic correlations of events; The political correlations of events; The historical correlations of events; Events and salient matters of being; Events and salient matters of becoming; Events and salient matters of voice; Events and salient matters of reflexivity; Events and salient matters of audiencing; Overview: the reflexive use of acumen in event projection; References;

3: The Making of Societies through Events: On Ideology, Power and ConsentIntroduction; Ideology; The Reinventing of Christmas: A Case in Manipulation; Gramsci's Hegemony; Ideological Becomings and the Role of Events; The different forms of power; Hard Power; Soft Power; Revolutionary Power; Cultural Hegemony; A Note on Contemporary Ideological Manifestations; Conclusions; References; 4: Let There Be Rock! A Tale of Two Christian Music Festivals; Introduction; Methods; A Tale of Two Festivals: Lifest and Cornerstone; Christian Imaginaries; The Festival as Ideological Apparatus; Conclusions;

Notes; References; 5: The Exit Festival: Contesting Political Pasts, Impacts on Youth Culture and Regenerating the Image of Serbia and Novi Sad; Introduction; Social and Cultural Impacts of Events and Music Festivals; The Exit Movement: Background and Context; Sociopolitical Initiatives; Influences/Impacts on Youth Culture; A 'New' International Image; Conclusions; References; 6: Social Constructions of Value: Marketing Considerations for the Context of Event and Festival Visitation; Introduction; An Overview of Value Perspectives for Events and Festivals; Outcome-oriented value perspective; Co-created 'value-in-' perspective.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Moufakkir, O. Ideological, Social and Cultural Aspects of Events.

ISBN:

9781780643533

1780643535

OCLC:

900346573

Access Restriction:

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