2nd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Events
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.
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
Biography
Stephen J. Page is Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Business and Management, Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Joanne Connell is Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, UK
"The second edition of Page and Connell’s The Routledge Handbook of Events brings together leading researchers to extend perspectives in this burgeoning area of study. New chapters include notable critiques of under-represented aspects of event studies including diversity, inclusion and human rights. A valuable update for event studies students and researchers."
Professor Karen A. Smith, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
"The list of contributors to this Handbook reads like a Who's Who of event scholarship. Events are analysed from multiple perspectives and this new edition contains several new chapters which highlight the advances made in critical events studies. This is an impressively comprehensive text that does justice to a very diverse and rapidly expanding field."
Dr. Andrew Smith, School of Architecture & Cities, University of Westminster, UK
