1st Edition
Event Mobilities Politics, place and performance
1. Introduction: Towards an agenda for event mobilities research Kevin Hannam, Mary Mostafanezhad and Jillian Rickly-Boyd 2. All the way to Timbuktu: Mobilizing imaginaries in the globalized space of the festival in the Desert, Mali Angela Montague 3. Waltzing around the world: Musical mobilities and the aesthetics of adaptation Peter Peters 4. Framing identities and mobilities in heavy metal music festival events Karl Spracklen 5. Game of Thrones to game of sites/sights: Framing events through cinematic transformations in Northern Ireland Rodanthi Tzanelli 6. Making home ‘Under the Big Top’: Materialities of moving a small town every day and wintering in place Rebecca Sheehan 7. Time and space to run: The mobilities and immobiliites of road races Julie Cidell 8. Necromobility/choreomobility: Dance, death, and displacement in the Thai-Burma border-zone Tani Sebro 9. Mobility slogans: Rhetoric, movement, and #WeAreHere Lisa C. Braverman 10. Food sovereignty galas: Transnational activism for rich moral economies and poor livelihoods Elizabeth Louis 11. Food as a quixotic event: Producing Lebanese cuisine in London Ali Abdallah and Kevin Hannam 12. Afterword Chris Gibson
Biography
Kevin Hannam, PhD is Professor of Tourism in the Business School at Edinburgh Napier University. Previously he was at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is co-editor of the Routledge journals Mobilities and Applied Mobilities.
Mary Mostafanezhad, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Jillian Rickly, is an Assistant Professor in the Business School at the University of Nottingham.
