Rebecca Finkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4497936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Finkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkel |
| SIGNATURE | FINKEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Business School, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forces of epistemic injustice
This study examines the structural, political, and epistemic conditions shaping the production and publication of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) research within events management journals. Drawing on interviews with authors and events journal editors, the findings reveal that EDI scholarship is often constrained, not by a lack of interest, but by misalignment between researchers’ commitments, and the neoliberal academic systems in which …
Transforming Leisure in the Pandemic
Gendered Violence at International Festivals
Rebecca Finkel - ORCID 0000-0003-2120-6211 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-6211
Marginalisation and Events
A diverse range of events can be conceptualised as being at/for/in the margins or as marginal. They may include events in/for groups or communities marginalised based on race, gender, religion, [dis]ability, ethnicity, citizenship status and/or income or a combination thereof. They may be held in geographically isolated places and as such be on the physical margins, which raises not only a set of potential challenges for event managers but also p…
Multispecies leisure
Paula Danby - ORCID 0000-0002-2916-6739 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-6739
Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Event Studies
Most early social research into planned events had the effect of broadcasting narratives of dominant cultures and privileged groups. More recently, however, convergences of gender, sexualities, ethnicities, age, class, religion, and intersectional analyses and events studies have started to drive new critical understanding of the impacts of events on non-mainstream, non-majority communities around the globe. This timely book addresses current gap…
Diversifying the creative
div_BaM
Sports Events, Society and Culture
"This innovative volume moves beyond existing operational approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political, and mediatised phenomena. The core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture are discussed to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the issues …
Sex trafficking and the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games
A picture of the contemporary combined arts festival landscape
The last 10-15 years has seen the rapid growth of festivals in Britain and overseas. This article examines the current situation of combined arts festivals in the UK in an effort to understand what the British festival environment looks like in the early years of the new millennium. A number of questions present themselves regarding the history and development of the current festival structure, the number of festivals, their size, distribution, a…
Multispecies leisure
Paula Danby - ORCID 0000-0002-2916-6739 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-6739
Sex trafficking and the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games
A picture of the contemporary combined arts festival landscape
The last 10-15 years has seen the rapid growth of festivals in Britain and overseas. This article examines the current situation of combined arts festivals in the UK in an effort to understand what the British festival environment looks like in the early years of the new millennium. A number of questions present themselves regarding the history and development of the current festival structure, the number of festivals, their size, distribution, a…
A picture of the contemporary combined arts festival landscape
The last 10-15 years has seen the rapid growth of festivals in Britain and overseas. This article examines the current situation of combined arts festivals in the UK in an effort to understand what the British festival environment looks like in the early years of the new millennium. A number of questions present themselves regarding the history and development of the current festival structure, the number of festivals, their size, distribution, a…
Sex trafficking and the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games
Sports Events, Society and Culture
"This innovative volume moves beyond existing operational approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political, and mediatised phenomena. The core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture are discussed to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the issues …
Diversifying the creative
div_BaM
Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Event Studies
Most early social research into planned events had the effect of broadcasting narratives of dominant cultures and privileged groups. More recently, however, convergences of gender, sexualities, ethnicities, age, class, religion, and intersectional analyses and events studies have started to drive new critical understanding of the impacts of events on non-mainstream, non-majority communities around the globe. This timely book addresses current gap…
Marginalisation and Events
A diverse range of events can be conceptualised as being at/for/in the margins or as marginal. They may include events in/for groups or communities marginalised based on race, gender, religion, [dis]ability, ethnicity, citizenship status and/or income or a combination thereof. They may be held in geographically isolated places and as such be on the physical margins, which raises not only a set of potential challenges for event managers but also p…
Multispecies leisure
Paula Danby - ORCID 0000-0002-2916-6739 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-6739
Gendered Violence at International Festivals
Rebecca Finkel - ORCID 0000-0003-2120-6211 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2120-6211
Transforming Leisure in the Pandemic
Forces of epistemic injustice
This study examines the structural, political, and epistemic conditions shaping the production and publication of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) research within events management journals. Drawing on interviews with authors and events journal editors, the findings reveal that EDI scholarship is often constrained, not by a lack of interest, but by misalignment between researchers’ commitments, and the neoliberal academic systems in which …
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Business & Economics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Hospitality, travel & tourism (3 works) · Industries (3 works) · Recreation (3 works)