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  • Multilevel Democracy

    How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State

    by Jefferey M. Sellers, Anders Lidström, Yooil Bae ...
    This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how inclusive local institutions that integrate national and local governance make democracy work better. Across most of the developed world, early forms of the national state entrenched the local power of elites. In ... Read more

    $146.79 USD

  • Mega-Events and Mega-Ambitions: South Korea’s Rise and the Strategic Use of the Big Four Events

    by Yu-Min Joo, Yooil Bae, Eva Kassens-Noor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea’s strategic use of mega-events in its modern development. It examines the Summer Olympics (1988), the World Expo (1993), the FIFA World Cup (2002), and the Winter Olympics (2018) over the past 30 years of the country’s rapid growth, and across varying stages of economic and political development. It explains how mega-events helped to secure ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space

    Lasting Legacies?

    by Robert Oliver, John Lauermann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from one ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • International Place Branding Yearbook 2012

    Managing Smart Growth and Sustainability

    Edited by F. Go, R. Govers ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This third annual volume of the International Place Branding Yearbook looks at the case for applying brand and marketing strategies to the economic, social, political and cultural development of cities, towns and regions around the world to help them compete in the global, national and local markets. It focuses on sustainability and smart growth. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Managing the Paralympics

    Edited by Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley, Daryl Adair ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world’s premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Performing Nashville

    Music Tourism and Country Music's Main Street

    by Robert W. Fry ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville’s multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city’s influence on the formation and performance of the individual and collective identities of the country-music fan. More importantly, the author discusses the larger issue of country music as a ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

    Edited by Philip R. Stone, Rudi Hartmann, Tony Seaton, Richard Sharpley, Leanne White ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ‘difficult heritage’ processes and ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Erin Sharpe, Spencer Swain ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory, charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of socio-cultural theories from thinkers such as Adorno, Bauman, Weber and Marx. Drawing on contributions from experts in leisure studies from around the world, ... Read more

    $287.99 USD

  • The Politics of Tourism Development

    Booms and Busts in Ireland

    by A. O'Brien ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent development within tourism. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism

    Edited by T. Thurnell-Read, M. Casey ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and tourism. Through the chapters collected in this volume the reader will be exposed to cutting edge research and writing that offer global and local perspectives within these fields. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Evolution of Destination Planning and Strategy

    The Rise of Tourism in Croatia

    Edited by Larry Dwyer, Renata Tomljenović, Sanda Čorak ...
    This book deals broadly with tourism planning and development from the perspective of Croatia, a major Adriatic tourism destination which is fast becoming one of the most popular vacation spots in the European Union. With the recent accession of Croatia to the EU, Croatia is undergoing a rapid political and economic transition and generating scholarly interest in the country’s primary, secondary, ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character

    From London 2012 to Rio 2016

    by R. Tzanelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadóros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences. ... Read more

    $59.39 USD