Approaches and Methods in Event Studies

Tomas Pernecky is with the Faculty of Culture and Society at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. An advocate of post-disciplinary approaches to knowledge, his wide-ranging interests extend to examining a variety of philosophical, conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues. Examples include ontological inquiry into the constitution of social worlds through the phenomenon of events (e.g. Ideological, Social and Cultural Aspects of Events by CABI), sustainability-related concerns (e.g. Events, Society and Sustainability: Critical and Contemporary Approaches by Routledge) and the application of constructionist philosophy and hermeneutic phenomenology in tourism research. Tomas recently co-chaired the second Tourism Postdisciplinary Conference (Copenhagen, 22–24 June 2015) and co-edited a special issue on tourism post-disciplinarity for the journal Tourism Analysis.

• What and when is an ‘event’: a short prelude to event studies(Tomas Pernecky)Part I Introduction1. The epistemic foundations of event studies(Tomas Pernecky)Part II Articulating a broader philosophical, conceptual, and theoretical vision for event studies2. Evental approaches to the study of events(Iain Mackenzie & Robert Porter)3. Eventification: framing the Ordinary as the Extraordinary(Temple Hauptfleisch)4. The creative guerrilla: makers, organisation and belonging(Welby Ings)5. A mobilities approach to events (Kevin Hannam)PART III Towards critical capacity and methodological vigilance for the study of events6. Critical discourse analysis: towards critiquing the language of events(William Feighery)7. Visual methods in event studies (Dennis Zuev)8. Tourism and new collective effervescence: the encoding of ‘Aboriginality’ – a worldmaking critique of special events and special places(Keith Hollinshead & Rukeya Suleman)9. Ethnography in the diaspora: Indian cultural production and transnational networks(Alison Booth)10. Collapsing social distance with cake and tea: the influence of Indigenous methodologies(Jared Mackley-Crump)PART IV Conclusion11. Events and the framing of peoples and places: acts of declarations/acts of devilry(Keith Hollinshead & Rukeya Suleman)