Events and Infrastructures

Critical Interrogations
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-43869-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Routledge Critical Event Studies Research Series.

Innovative and the first of its kind, this informative and multidisciplinary book explores the socio-cultural significance inherent in event infrastructures.

While mainstream event management literature addresses event infrastructures mainly through its operational relevance, this carefully compiled edited volume takes infrastructures as an analytical point in respect to its social, political, economic and cultural potential of the study of events. Borrowing from the ongoing social scientific debates on the geography, sociology and anthropology of infrastructures, critical questions are posed in relation to the event contexts. With references to events in Argentina, Malawi, Spain and the UK, among others, the volume combines an international perspective with a highly relevant subject for contemporary event management education.

By bringing together theoretical as well as empirical readings on the question of event infrastructures from a critical point of view, the debates are relevant to practitioners and researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of events, leisure, tourism, anthropology, sociology, geography and urban planning – among others.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grabher, Barbara

Lamond, Ian R.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Lost in Infrastructure. Part 1. Infrastructuring Space. 2. Revisiting the Spatial Relationships Between Mega-Events and Host Cities. 3. Interrogating Event-Induced but Underused Infrastructures: The White Elephants of Spanish Mega-Events Linked to the Neoliberal Urbanism of Recent Decades. 4. The ‘Circus’ is Coming to Town… Literally. Contestation and Conflict Around Formula 1 Street Circuits. 5. Culture, Cognition, Events, and Infrastructures. Part 2. Event Infrastructures as Expressions of in/Equality. 6. Exclusive Expectations: Examining the VIP Experience at UK Music Events. 7. Infrastructuring an Event. FemIT Conf 2021: Diversity and Technology in Argentina. 8. Transforming Attitudes through Strategic Infrastructuring: The Tumaini Festival in Malawi’s Dzaleka Refugee Camp. 9. The Genesis of a Shared World Through Event Infrastructure: A Phenomenological Investigation of Communitarisation in Shared and Extraordinary Experiences. Part 3. Events as Infrastructure. 10. An Analysis of Multicultural Trends Underlying the Maltese Festa in a Digital Era. 11. Events as Infrastructure and Learning Experiences: Exemplified on an Alpine Peripheral Living Lab in Rural Switzerland. 12. Events as Soft Infrastructure for Urban Development? Learning from the Italian Capital of Culture Initiative. 13. Beyond Control: Critical Reflections on Infrastructure and Events. 14. Last words? – Unconclusive remarks.

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Grabher works as Lecturer in Event Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. As a trained anthropologist with a specialisation in gender studies, she researches event-based regeneration processes through a lens of critical event studies. Combining perspectives of event, gender and urban studies, she published the monograph Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives on Critical Event Studies (Routledge) in 2022. In her current project Between Culture and Salt, she considers the notion of the Anthropocene and its conceptual and empirical potential for the field of event studies in regards to the case study of Bad Ischl-Salzkammergut European Capital of Culture 2024.

Ian R. Lamond is Senior Lecturer in Events at Leeds Beckett University (UK) in the UK Centre for Event Management (UKCEM). Ian’s academic background is in philosophy, particular social and cultural theory, and contemporary European thought. His interests include the conceptual foundations of event studies, protest events, end-of-life events and events associated with deviant leisure. He is the co-author and co-editor of several books in the broad field of critical event studies.