Liminality and critical event studies : borders, boundaries, and contestation /: borders, boundaries, and contestation. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ian R. Lamond, Jonathan Moss, editors.
• Other Names: Lamond, Ian R; Moss, Jonathan
• Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I Overtures -- 2 What Is Liminality in Critical Event Studies Research? -- References -- 3 Liminality, Subjectivity, and Aesthetics in Event Management Studies -- Introduction -- The Liminality Concept -- The Liminality Concept Applied to Events -- Subjectivity and the Event Experience -- Deconstructing the Role and Function of the Event Manager in Relation to the Liminal Concept -- The Liminality Concept in Events Management Higher Education The Location of Events Studies in the Higher Education Context -- The Location of 'Design' in Higher Education Events Management Textbooks -- Summary and Implications -- References -- II Oratorios -- 4 Liminality and Event Design: Liminal Space Design for Sport Events -- Introduction -- The Nature of Liminality and Sport Events -- Sport Events and the Ritualistic Liminal Space -- Designing Sport Events for Liminal Experiences -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Privilege of Subversion -- Introducing the Privilege of Subversion -- Situating the Research -- Field -- Methods Celebrating Gender and Sexuality -- Liminal Experiences of LGBT50 -- Living Liminality -- Doing Politics Through Liminality -- Creating Imaginaries Through Liminality -- Liminal Restrictions-Or the Privilege of Subversion -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Searching for Sites of Liminality in Giga-Events -- Introduction -- Liminality: Liminal Thinking, Liminal Spaces, and Creating the Liminoidal Environment -- Disrupting 'Corporate Kettling': 'Neoliberal Consumption' to 'Critical Consumption' -- Mapping Sites of Liminality and Extending the 'Festival-Event-Leverage Complex' 9 'Sit in the Shadows': The Black Body as American Event -- Sport, Politics, and the Unstable Ritual -- The Body and Truth: The Racial Politics of Sport -- Liminality -- Event -- The Event and the Subject -- The Faithful Subject -- The Reactionary Subject -- The Obscure Subject -- The Last Word -- References -- 10 Double Liminality: Fado Events and Tourism -- The Tourists -- Fado -- Fado and the Tourism -- The Fadistas -- Concluding Comments -- References -- III Counterpoints -- 11 Liminality and Ritual Order: Italy's National Elections of 2018 -- Liminality Inside and Outside Order
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.1; Liminality; Events (Philosophy); Events (Philosophy); Liminality; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030402563; 3030402568
• Related ISBNs: 9783030402556; 303040255X
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