The Routledge handbook of events

1 Introduction Joanne Connell and Stephen J. Page-- -- SECTION 1 Conceptualising events-- 2 Event studies-- Donald Getz-- -- 3 Public events, personal leisure?-- Diane O'Sullivan-- -- 4 Events and tourism-- Warwick Frost and Jennifer Frost-- -- 5 Events and hospitality-- Roy C. Wood-- -- 6 Sports events: typologies, people and place-- Sean Gammon-- -- SECTION 2 Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to events: concepts and methods of analysis-- 7 The history of events: ideology, representation and historiography-- John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold-- -- 8 Anthropology of events: diasporic perspectives, events and the representation of people-- Alison Booth-- -- 9 Socio-cultural impacts of events: meanings, authorized transgression, and social capital-- Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone-- -- 10 The economic contribution of special events-- Larry Dwyer and Leo Jago-- -- 11 A spatial extension to a framework for assessing direct economic impacts of tourist events-- Timothy J. Tyrrell and Robert J. Johnston-- -- 12 Geography and the study of events-- C. Michael Hall and Stephen J. Page-- -- 13 Revisiting the psychology of events-- Pierre Benckendorff and Philip L. Pearce-- -- 14 The political analysis and political economy of events-- C. Michael Hall-- -- 15 Urban studies and the eventful city-- Greg Richards-- -- 16 Events management education-- Paul Barron and Anna Leask-- -- 17 Quantitative and qualitative research tools in events-- Richard Shipway, Leo Jago and Marg Deery-- -- SECTION 3 Business, operational and strategic issues associated with events-- 18 The private sector and events-- Robyn Stokes-- -- 19 Event staging-- Nicole Ferdinand Nigel Williams-- -- 20 The experience of events-- Chris Ryan-- -- 21 Designing event experiences-- Graham Berridge-- -- 22 The media, marketing and events: a new reality-- Ivna Reic-- -- 23 Seasonality and events-- Joanne Connell and Stephen J. Page-- -- 24 Staffing for successful events: having the right skills in the right place at the right time-- Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Clare Hanlon and Leo Jago-- -- 25 Knowledge management in events-- Diana Clayton-- -- 26 Event impacts and environmental sustainability-- Kirsten Holmes and Judith Mair-- -- SECTION 4 The critical turn in events: contemporary issues, society and events-- -- 27 Accessibility, diversity and inclusion in events-- Rebecca Finkel and Katherine Dashper-- -- 28 Disability and events-- Gayle McPherson, Aina Oluwaseyi, David McGillivray, and Laura Misener-- -- 29 Human rights, events and the media: a neglected relationship-- Sarah Snell-- -- 30 The benefits of events in older life-- Raphaela Stadler, Allan Jepson and Emma Wood-- -- 31 Faces, spaces and places: social and cultural impacts of street festivals in cosmopolitan cities-- Stephen J. Shaw-- -- 32 Events, cities and the night-time economy-- Graeme Evans-- -- 33 Retrospect and prospect-- Stephen J. Page and Joanne Connell--

The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with the rapidly expanding domain of Event Studies. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, to provide a state-of-the-art review on the evolution of the subject. The first edition was a landmark study which examined how event research had evolved and developed from a range of different social science subject areas and disciplines. The Handbook was the first critique of the extent to which the subject had developed into a major area of social science inquiry. ; ; This second edition has been fully updated to reflect crucial developments in the field and includes brand new sections on ever-important aspects of Event Studies such as: anthropology, hospitality, seasonality, knowledge management, accessibility, diversity and human rights, as well as new studies on 'the eventful city' and the benefits of events in older life. The book is divided into four inter-related sections. Section 1 introduces and evaluates the concept of events. Section 2 critically reviews the relationship between events and other disciplines such as the contribution of economics, psychology and geography to the critical discourse of Event Studies. Section 3 focuses on the business, operational and strategic management of events, while the final section crucially focuses on critical events as a new paradigm within the burgeoning literature on Events. ; ; It offers the reader a comprehensive and critical synthesis of this field, conveying the latest thinking associated with events research, edited by two of the leading scholars in the field. The text will provide an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in Events Studies, encouraging dialogue that will span across disciplinary boundaries and other areas of study. It is an essential guide for anyone interested in events research.