Books in the Routledge Advances in Event Research Series series

Festival and Event Tourism Impacts provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the multi-faceted impacts that festival and events have on a host community, whether positive or negative, and offers recommendations for communities for the successful management of this kind of tourism.

This innovative volume moves beyond existing operational approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political, and mediatised phenomena. The core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture are discussed to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the issues of conflict and power associated with these. The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach with contributions from areas including sports studies, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, communications, politics, tourism and gender studies.

This volume is timely, being the first to provide a critical comprehensive review of the international event volunteering experience, whilst at the same time challenging existing research in the area to highlight studies that go beyond disciplinary and methodological boundaries to provide new knowledge on the event volunteering experience.

This is the first book to take a futures approach to understanding event management. It takes a systematic and pattern-based understanding in order to determine the likelihood of future events and trends, capture how the industry is changing and identify important issues that will affect events now as well as the future. It offers an analytical analysis of current and future issues including sustainability, security, impacts of social media, design at both mega event and community level and reviews a good range of different types of events from varying geographical regions.Written by leading academics in the field, this ground breaking book is a valuable reference point for the future of events research.

This book for the first time, explores the role and importance of `community¿, `culture¿ and its impact through festivals and events. By doing so the book explores local traditions, culture, and how community festivals and events can act as a catalyst for tourism and create a sense of community, and offers further insight into the role of diaspora, imagined communities, pride and identity, history, producing and consuming space and place, authenticity and multi-ethnic communities.

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Battlefield Events is an investigative and analytical study into the way in which significant landscapes of war have been constructed and imagined through events over time to articulate specific narratives and denote consequence and identity.

Events from a mobilities perspective attend to moments in which individual networks coalesce in place but are not isolated in their performance as they often foster far-reaching and mobile networks of community. In so doing, individuals travel from varying distances to participate in localized performances. However, events themselves are also mobile, and events affect mobility. Mobile events serve as contexts that provide meanings and purpose articulated in relation to, and as, a series of other social actions. They further highlight the role of the body and embodied practices in the performance of events. Building on Sheller and Urry''s (2004) seminal work Tourism Mobilities, the purpose of this book is to further develop event studies research within mobilities studies so as to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest play. Simply put, events are always already place-based and political in the sense that they can both inspire mobility as well as lead to various immobilities for different social groups. The title addresses everyday as well as extraordinary events, shining an empirical and theoretical lens onto the political, economic and social role of events in numerous geographic and cultural contexts.? It stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study to illustrate the advantages of a mobilities multi-disciplinary conversation.? This groundbreaking volume is the first to offer a conceptualization and theorization of event mobilities. It will serve as a valuable resource and reference for event, tourism and leisure studies students and scholars interested in exploring the ways the everyday and the extraordinary interlace.