Ian R (Hrsg.) Lamond

Protests as Events

Politics, Activism and Leisure

Buch

Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal resistance be understood as events? Within the field of Events Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three categories-culture, sport or business. Such a typology can be helpful as a heuristic for interpretation and analysis within a commercial paradigm. However, this framework overlooks and depoliticizes a significant variety of events, those more accurately construed as protest. Protests as Events is the first book to explore activism as a leisure activity and protests as events; using a fresh i… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Spracklen, Karl (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78348-077-7
EAN: 9781783480777
Produktnummer: 16600513
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 276 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 428 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 428

Über den Autor

Ian Lamond is lecturer of events management at Leeds Metropolitan University. His research is concerned with the working practices of social movements and how such movements respond to policy change. His work has been presented at several international conferences-spanning disciplines such as political science; political communication, policy studies, critical tourism studies and critical discourse analysis. Karl Spracklen is Professor of leisure studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He teaches leisure theory, popular culture; philosophy and sociology of sports science, as well as research methods and dissertation support, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, across the School. He has published widely in the area of leisure studies with works including Leisure, Sport and Society (2013), Whiteness and Leisure (2013), Constructing Leisure, Historical and Philosophical Debates (2011) and Habermas and the Meaning of Leisure (2009) all with Palgrave Macmillan.