Rethinking events : a critique and reconfiguration / Vassilios Ziakas (Principal, Leisure Insights Consultancy, Leeds and Honorary Faculty, University of Liverpool, UK).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziakas, Vassilios, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Rethinking tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Events tourism.

Sustainable tourism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"This invigorating read explores the inherent unsustainability of events, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Vassilios Ziakas challenges the dominant paradigms of the field, suggesting the need to seriously rethink how we view, study and manage events in order to develop holistic event management frameworks which foster their adaptability and resilience. Treating events as complex ecosystems, Ziakas constructs a transdisciplinary explanatory framework to provide an integrative outlook for treating events and develop a comprehensive analytic for their study. Merging the contextual, policy, operational and sociocultural grounds of event portfolios, the book sheds light on how events operate as social systems interlinked with community networks. Chapters introduce cross-management as a holistic approach enabling inter-industry operational practices to move away from the current fragmented outlook across events theory and practice. Incisive and visionary, this book will be a thought-provoking read for students, researchers and practitioners in event management, tourism, leisure studies, sport management and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction to rethinking events: Facing the unsustainability of events

Part I. Reimagining events

1. The unsustainability of events: Exposing hidden truths and falsehoods

2. Shifting perspectives in event discourse and scholarship

Part II. Theorizing polythematic event unities

3. An integrative theory of event morphosynthesis

4. The cross-management of events

Part III. Reshaping event modalities

5. Events and tourism intersections

6. Conclusion to rethinking events

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781035313648 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.