Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Kevin Hannam (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ,
Mary Mostafanezhad (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA) ,
Jillian Rickly (University of Nottingham, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9781138592469
ISBN 10: 1138592463
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 25 April 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
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.
