Our new book, ‘Events Management: an introduction’ will be published by Routledge on 22nd February 2012. You can view more information about it here, and pre-order it from Amazon. “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… [Read more…]
March 18, 2010
Wesley Rykalski and I will be presenting a paper based on our research for the arcades / promenades project at this conference. Once the paper is finished we’ll post more details up on our project blog, along with a programme for the event, once it is available. You can read the abstract for our… [Read more…]
January 17, 2010
A colleague and I have had a paper accepted for the ‘Global Events Congress IV: Events and Festivals Research: The State of the Art’ event, to be held in Leeds from 14-16 July 2010. Our paper looks at how the application of methods from ethnography can contribute to events management research. Bekah carried out participant observation, photographic and auto-photographic… [Read more…]
January 12, 2010
There are three new posts up on our ‘Reading the Arcades / Reading the Promenades’ blog. The first is on our use of a yahoo pipe to collect images of the seaside promenade, the second is a set of links to other projects who also use Benjamin’s ‘Aracdes Project’ as inspiration for new work, and… [Read more…]
September 19, 2009
Wesley has posted up the latest contribution to our ‘Reading the Arcades, reading the Promenades’ blog, where we are attempting to bring together our readings of Walter Benjamins’ ‘Arcades Project‘ and apply these to the British seaside promenade. A taster of Wesley’s piece: “Benjamin is, very, clear and, far too, concise in his summation of… [Read more…]
June 23, 2009
I’ve just posted about ‘the fantasy of cultural history’ and cultural materialism on the arcades/promenades blog. Wesley has also posted a photo-essay that takes its cue from Brighton’s promenade. “…fashion…this semblance of the new is reflected, like one mirror in another, in the semblance of the ever recurrent. The product of this reflection is the… [Read more…]
March 10, 2009
Along with Wesley Rykalski, I have just embarked on an online project that seeks to examine the role of the seaside promenade in the imagination and practices of late modernity, through a critical encounter with Walter Benjamin‘s ‘The Arcades Project’. In his final project, Benjamin was attempting to critique the ‘bourgeois experience of nineteenth century… [Read more…]
August 18, 2008
UPDATE: Work has been slower on this than I imagined, but I see this post is still getting a high number of hits. I recommend placing it in your favourites or bookmarks and checking back in a month or so! 22/01/09 As part of my research into the regeneration of seaside towns, I’ve begun to use dipity… [Read more…]
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