Events, places and societies / edited by Nicholas Wise and John Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wise, Nicholas, 1983- editor.

Harris, John, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Special events--Social aspects--Case studies.

Special events.

Special events--Management--Case studies.

Special events--Management.

Social aspects.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction to place / Velvet Nelson

Privilege on the pearl : the politics of place and the 2016 UCI road cycling world championships in Doha, Qatar / Natalie Koch

Social impacts and implications of hosting festivals on the place and local community : the exit festival in Novi Sad, Serbia / Vanja Pavlukovic, Tanja Armenski & Juan Miguel Alcántara-Pilar

The spaces, places and landscapes of Brazil's carnival : racialised geographies and multiscale perspectives of Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre / Maurício Polidoro

Renewing Rijeka for 2020 : managing placemaking, regeneration and community participation / Nicholas Wise, Jelena /urkin & Marko Peric

Cinematic sense of place : embodied celluloid spectres on the red carpet in Cannes / Dorota Ostrowska

Qingdao International Beer Festival : place identity and colonial heritage / Xiaolin Zang, Bouke van Gorp & Hans Renes

A taste of place : the Hokitika Wild Foods Festival in New Zealand / Alexandra Gillespie & C. Michael Hall

Durban and the forfeiture of the 2022 Commonwealth Games : a bid won and lost by default / Brij Maharaj

Cultural sites of tension in the Iditarod of Alaska / Trine Kvidal-Røvik & Kari Jaeger

Reinventing and reimagining rural Wales : the case of the world alternative games / Lucia Aquilino & John Harris

Re-creating the clan : "brotherhood" and solidarity at the Masters World Championship Highland Games / James Bowness

La monoestrellada and the display of identity politics in puerto rico : cultural activism and placemaking in 78 pueblos y 1 bandera / Brenda L. Ortiz-Loyola & José R. Díaz-Garayúa

Follow the leather brick road : place, community and the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco and beyond / Lindsey Gaston

Whose Europe? : representing place in the Ryder Cup / Don Colley & John Harris

Linking geographical and sociological interpretations : place, society and Diwali around the world / Nicholas Wise

Conclusion : expanding (inter)disciplinary perspectives in research on events / John Harris & Nicholas Wise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138482470

1138482471

OCLC:

1066180536