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 participa…
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 participa…
Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This introductory textbook is the first to fully explore the multi-disciplinary nature of events management and to provide all the practical skills and professional knowledge students need to succeed in the event…
"Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This major new introductory textbook is the first to fully explore the multi-disciplinary nature of events management and to provide all the practical skills and professional knowledge students need to succeed i…
This text brings together a wide range of international experts in the fields of events, design, and imagineering to examine the event design process. It explores the entire event experience from conception and production to consumption and co-creation. By doing so it offers ins…
This text brings together a wide range of international experts in the fields of events, design, and imagineering to examine the event design process. It explores the entire event experience from conception and production to consumption and co-creation. By doing so it offers ins…
This text brings together a wide range of international experts in the fields of events, design, and imagineering to examine the event design process. It explores the entire event experience from conception and production to consumption and co-creation. By doing so it offers ins…
"Public toilets are places where individual identity is put to the test through experiences of fear, anxiety, shame, and embarrassment, yet also places where we shore up, confirm, and check the status of our gendered identities. In these highly gendered and sex-segregated places…
"This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpret…
Christopher Frayling has spent 45 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture - the vampire. This book is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern E…
This text addresses the social and cultural side of events and explores the role events have in fostering change and community development. It examines the transformatory function of events in the context of development studies - as phenomena that can promote and facilitate huma…
This title provides a guide to organising major events such as festivals, parties, concerts, weddings, and conferences. It includes photocopiable forms that will help readers to plan and budget, and case studies and websites to learn from.
This title provides a guide to organising major events such as festivals, parties, concerts, weddings, and conferences. It includes photocopiable forms that will help readers to plan and budget, and case studies and websites to learn from.
Cities and regions around the world increasingly capitalise on a series of events aimed at optimising their reach and outcomes. How then can a series of different events be developed and harnessed? What are the conditions and the means by which synergies and collaboration among …
Bidding contests for sporting and cultural events are attracting increasing media and public attention. Yet, despite the cost, size, and scale of these bidding contests, relatively little academic attention has been paid to the strategies and tactics used to develop successful b…
"The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. Thor's significance persisted long after th…
"Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent roma…
This volume presents a selection of papers and case studies first presented at a conference designed to focus on the toilets of the Northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire, taking place at Radboud University on the 1st and 2nd of May 2009. Papers demonstrate the value of scie…
