Karl Spracklen, Ian R. Lamond

Critical Event Studies (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317427032
• Artikelnr.: 45132491

Autorenporträt

Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Beckett University. He has been Chair of the Leisure Studies Association and is currently Vice-President of Research Committee 13 (Sociology of Leisure) of the International Sociological Association. He has researched and published widely on leisure theory and leisure studies, with particular interests in music, tourism, sport, sub-cultures and the idea of communicative and instrumental leisure.

Ian R. Lamond is Senior Lecturer in Events at Leeds Beckett University. He is a member of the Political Studies Association, Media Communications and Cultural Studies Association and Leisure Studies Association. His research interests are wide ranging and include: critical event studies; protest as event; events in contested spaces, event theory; and the sociology of political institutions.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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