Global Event Management: a critique

AbstractWithin the professional Event Management literature considerable claims have been made for Event Management. Investment in the area and student enrolments has risen dramatically. In some circles, Event Management is portrayed as challenging Leisure Studies and even undermining it. However, if one examines the professional literature, one quickly finds that it is overwhelmingly uncritical and self-congratulatory. The relationship between Events, manipulation, corruption and social control has not been rigorously examined. This paper distinguishes the main types of Global Event (Single Issue and Cyclical). It attempts a balanced account of the claims made by Event Management. It examines data from Live Aid, the FIFA World Cup and the Sydney Olympics to test the claims against practice. It also includes two longer examinations of Global Event Management, namely the Sydney Mardi Gras and the Live 8 (2005) concert. The paper concludes that Event Management is based in principles from neo-liberalism and communitarianism. This produces an attitude to Events and leisure which is Reformist. This perspective is contrasted with the critical tradition in Leisure Studies which supports a more radical perspective on leisure.在专业的活动管理文学中已经有相当的篇幅来对事件管理进行研究。在这方面的投资和学生入学率也有相当的提升。但在某些圈子里, 事件管理被描绘作为休闲学的一种挑战, 甚至是破坏。然而, 如果检查专业文献, 人们很快发现, 这是绝大多数 不是批评批判而是自我祝贺。事件之间的关系, 操纵, 腐败和社会控制还没有得到严格的审查。本文区分了社会事件的主要类型 (单个问题及周期性) 。试图找出事件管理的收支平衡。本文用从现场援助, 世界杯和悉尼奥运会得到的数据来检测对于实践的要求。它还包括两个较长全局事件管理和现场8 (2005) 音乐会。本文的结论是事件管理是基于新自由主义和社群主义的原则。这将产生对于时间管理的态度, 活动和休闲的改革。这个角度与传统批判休闲学相反, 它支持了一种对于休闲学更激进的态度。Keywords: eventglobalpowerregulation关键词: 事件全球性权力规则