Events of all shapes and sizes play an important part in all of our lives. They are fun, frivolous, and often allow us to escape from our everyday lives and they are also fascinating to study and examine in a more serious way, to understand what they mean and what they do for us individually and collectively. Events in Society, therefore, explores the social impact and sociological implications of designing, planning, and delivering events cultural events like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; sporting events like the Olympic and Paralympic Games and FIFA World Cup; to music festivals like Glastonbury.
Thirty carefully selected contributions feature, written by global experts in a short and succinct way that are easy to digest, covering a variety of disciplines, fields, contexts, and cases. Every chapter explores a critical issue or debate based on real-life events, and contextualises this within the key theoretical debates, managerial, and policy implications. Throughout, there are linkages to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well as interactive features to aid understanding and spur critical thinking, including learning objectives, quiz questions, and debate questions per chapter.
Some of the topics covered include:
- Uniting nations and people
- Personal experiences and transformations
- Social critique and explorations
- Activism
- Programming and representation
- Health, safety, and security
- Identity and gender
- LGBTQ+
- Environmentalism
- Displacement and exclusion
- Education and participation
- Community development
- Disability and accessibility
This innovative, topical, engaging, and comprehensive book is an essential reading and teaching resource for all students and lecturers in events that are easy to integrate into educational programmes.
Events play an important part in our lives. Events in Society explores the social impact and sociological implications of designing, planning, and delivering events cultural events like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; sporting events like the Olympic and Paralympic Games and FIFA World Cup; to music festivals like Glastonbury.
'Introduction. Introduction. Section
1. Transforming People.
1. How
Festival Encounters Tranform Lives and Landscapes - and Why We Should Care.
2. City Festivals and Social Connection: Post-Plague Lessons from
17th-Century Naples.
3. London 2012: Did it Inspire a Generation?
4. What Did
London 2012 Mean for the Paralympics and the Lives of People with
Disabilities?
5. Has London 2012 Volunteering Programme Engendered a
Sustainable and Wider Volunteering Legacy in the UK?
6. A Critical Review of
the Paralympic Games' Potential to Increase Disabled People's Sport
Participation.
7. How Does Hosting the Olympics Benefit Local Communities? An
Examination of Tokyo
2020. Section
2. Transforming Places.
8. Does Carnival
Still Come First in Rio Even When the Olympics Comes to Town?
9. Creating
Queer Spaces: Small-Town Prides Grow in Numbers and Popularity.
10. Olympics
for Whom? Winners and Losers of Mega-events.
11. Who Benefits when a City
Hosts the World Cup?
12. How Hosting the Olympics can Lead to Displacement.
13. Marginalisation, Displacement, and Exclusion in Montreals Cultural
Economy. Section
3. Transforming Experiences.
14. The Roar of the Crowd: How
Fans Create Electric Atmospheres.
15. Could Virtual Reality Change Gigs
Forever?
16. Looking Beyond the Screen: Smartphone Effects on Festival
Engagement.
17. The Need for Live Event Security Risk Management Practices in
a Post-COVID-19 World.
18. Strategies for Event Managers to Safeguard Against
Deadly Crowds. Section
4. Transforming Identity and Perspectives.
19. Black
Pete: An Annual Tradition or a National Embarrassment?
20. Contradictions and
Complexities: The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, LGBT Tourism Events and
Social Reform.
21. Events and Social Media: The #Euro2020 Online Firestorm.
22. #genderequalOlympics? Critical Analysis of Gender Equality and the
Olympic Games as a Major Multi-sport Event.
23. Staging the African
Renaissance at Africa's First Black Cultural Festival.
24. Transformative
Events: A Migrant Narrative of Identity and Belonging at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe.
25. Chale, Let's Go: The Case of Chale Wote Street Art
Festival. Section 5: Transforming our Environment.
26. Glastonbury and
Climate Change: How the World's Most Iconic Music Festival Puts the Spotlight
on Climate Challenges and Solutions.
27. Concerns about the Social
Implications of Sporting Events in Natural Areas.
28. The Good the Bad and
the Noisy: The Paradox(s) Created by Motorised Events in Green Spaces.
29.
London 2012: What the Olympic Games' Legacy of Sustainability Means for
Events Today.
30. March Madness and Environmental Impacts of Sport Events.
Conclusion and Recommendations.
Mike Duignan is a Professor at the Sorbonne, University of Paris 1, France, and the Director of Research, Intelligence, and Education at Trivandi, UK. Since 2021, Mike has been the Editor-in-Chief of the leading peer-reviewed journal for the study and analysis of events, Event Management Journal. Formerly, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, USA; the Director of the UK Olympic Studies Centre; and a Reader and Head of Department at the University of Surrey, UK.
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