Barbara Grabher

Doing Gender in Events

Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the relationship between gender and events, this book delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebration of gender equality in the context of the culture-led event.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367639754
• ISBN-10: 0367639750
• Artikelnr.: 62225126

Autorenporträt

Barbara Grabher is a trained Anthropologist working on the intersections of Gender, Urban and Critical Event Studies. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Geography and Regional Sciences at the University of Graz, Austria. Prior to this position, she was employed as research assistant in the Culture, Place and Policy Institute at the University of Hull, UK, where she contributed to the final evaluation study of Hull UK City of Culture 2017, focusing on the impact area, Society and Wellbeing. In 2020, Barbara completed her PhD at the University of Hull and University of Oviedo, Spain. She holds a BA in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Vienna, Austria, and an MA in Gender Studies from Utrecht University, the Netherlands and the University of Granada, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Relating gender and events: An introduction. 2. Reprogramming
transformative ambitions: Observations of shifting ambitions in
city/capital of culture initiatives. 3. Engagements through equality:
Studying encounters and dynamics of audiences in equality-themed events. 4.
Performance, events and equality: Examining the production of cultures of
gender equality in the performed contents of events. 5. Equality in
structure: Investigating infrastructural conditions and the production of
cultures of gender equality. 6. Doing gender in events: Perspectives for an
eventful future.