Ruth Dowson

This unique volume examines death from a socio-cultural events perspective. Drawing on the empirical and conceptual work produced by an international body of researchers, it is the first publication to look at death, dying, memorialization, and their mediation, from an events orientation. Meer

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• Provides practical and theoretical aspects for identifying and assessing the cultural risks in events and event spaces;
• Offers a truly ‘pracademic’ approach and insight – academic theory applied and combined with practical professional insights and practise;
• Authors show how to implement their own innovative tool to meet the need and understand the risk on running multi-cultural and diverse events
• Industry perspectives and examples included to contextualise the theory. Meer

This book reviews tourist motivations for making religious or spiritual journeys, and the management aspects related to them. It explores sacred journeys across both traditional religions such as Christianity and Islam, and newer forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities such as sport, music and food. Meer