Identity discourses and communities in international events, festivals and spectacles /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Leisure studies in a global era.
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Table of Contents:
- Making sense of identity discourses in international events, festivals and spectacles / Udo Merkel
- Il Calcio as a source of local and social identity in Italy / Mark Doidge
- The contestation of identities and communities in German football / Udo Merkel
- Contemporary images and identities in the Hong Kong dragon boat festival / Brian Bridges and Glos Ho
- London 2012: urban imagery and city branding / Adam Jones
- Royal celebrations in the twenty-first century: 'cool Britannia' versus 'Britannia ruled the waves' / Beth Mudford
- Identity discourses and narratives in North Korean events, festivals and celebrations / Udo Merkel and Gwang Ok
- China and the world fairs (1915-2010): blending nationalism and internationalism / Lu Zhouxiang
- Promoting 'European' identities at and through pan-European events / Jayne Luscombe
- Celebrating Muhammad's birthday in the Middle East: supporting or complicating Muslim identity projects? / Andrea L. Stanton
- Pride and glamour on the catwalk: fashion models as national and ethnic icons / Patrícia Soley-Beltran
- Participating in the world 'gymnastics for all' festival, the Gymnaestrada: a celebration of a dialogical, episodic-perpetual identity / Angela Wichmann
- 'One but not the same': U2 concerts, community and cultural identity / Michael Williams.