Month: January 2010

• Ethnographic methods in events research

  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 […]

  James Kennell

  January 17, 2010

  conferences, publications, research methods

  collaboration, conference, ethnography, events, publications, research methods

• Book review: Olympic Cities

  My review of Poynter & MacRury’s edited collection ‘Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London’  has just been published in this month’s edition of New Start Magazine, a publication for the regeneration sector. “Like all pre-games publications, this text suffers from the problem of grappling with an event that is yet to happen, in […]

  James Kennell

  January 14, 2010

  cultural regeneration, olympics, publications, regeneration

  2012, cultural regeneration, publications

• New posts on Aracdes / Promenades

  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 […]

  James Kennell

  January 12, 2010

  arcades / promenades, seaside, Theory, walter benjamin

  arcades project, collaboration, seaside, Theory, walter benjamin