Events, places and societies / edited by Nicholas Wise and John Harris.

Other author Wise, Nicholas, 1983-
Other author Harris, John, 1972-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Descriptionpages cm
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Subjects
Special events--Social aspects. --Case studies.
Special events--Management. --Case studies.

Contents Introduction to place / Velvet Nelson -- Privilege on the pearl : the politics of place and the 2016 UCI road cycling world championships in Doha, Qatar / Natalie Koch -- Social impacts and implications of hosting festivals on the place and local community : the exit festival in Novi Sad, Serbia / Vanja Pavlukovic, Tanja Armenski & Juan Miguel Alc©Łntara-Pilar -- The spaces, places and landscapes of Brazil's carnival : racialised geographies and multiscale perspectives of Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre / Maur©Ưcio Polidoro -- Renewing Rijeka for 2020 : managing placemaking, regeneration and community participation / Nicholas Wise, Jelena /urkin & Marko Peric -- Cinematic sense of place : embodied celluloid spectres on the red carpet in Cannes / Dorota Ostrowska -- Qingdao International Beer Festival : place identity and colonial heritage / Xiaolin Zang, Bouke van Gorp & Hans Renes -- A taste of place : the Hokitika Wild Foods Festival in New Zealand / Alexandra Gillespie & C. Michael Hall -- Durban and the forfeiture of the 2022 Commonwealth Games : a bid won and lost by default / Brij Maharaj -- Cultural sites of tension in the Iditarod of Alaska / Trine Kvidal-R©ıvik & Kari Jaeger -- Reinventing and reimagining rural Wales : the case of the world alternative games / Lucia Aquilino & John Harris -- Re-creating the clan : "brotherhood" and solidarity at the Masters World Championship Highland Games / James Bowness -- La monoestrellada and the display of identity politics in puerto rico : cultural activism and placemaking in 78 pueblos y 1 bandera / Brenda L. Ortiz-Loyola & Jos©♭ R. D©Ưaz-Garay©ða -- Follow the leather brick road : place, community and the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco and beyond / Lindsey Gaston -- Whose Europe? : representing place in the Ryder Cup / Don Colley & John Harris -- Linking geographical and sociological interpretations : place, society and Diwali around the world / Nicholas Wise -- Conclusion : expanding (inter)disciplinary perspectives in research on events / John Harris & Nicholas Wise.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018054355
ISBN9781138482470 (hbk : alk. paper)
ISBNebook

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