Ziaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 49447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ziaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziaka |
| SIGNATURE | ZIAKA |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Behavioural Insights Team |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1501-7863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From environmental sustainability to climate change adaptation
In recent years, the field of sport ecology research has grown, and its focus has broadened. Initially, this subdiscipline of sport management concentrated on the relationship between sport and environmental sustainability. More recently, attention has shifted towards the connection between sport and climate change. Despite this broadening, there has been little academic discussion about the factors driving this change or its implications for spo…
Civic Dramaturgy and World-Making
The drama enacted in communal settings of real life symbolically gives meaning to people and things shaping various public spheres and their world-making practices, thereby ultimately ordering the makeup of society. It does so, as it is omnipresent in social life and able to convert ideas to collective action through enunciations of embodied performances. Nevertheless, the nature, constitution, processes, and outcomes of social drama are poorly u…
Reclaiming drama in tourism research
Drama as symbolic action is overlooked in tourism research failing to take into account how dramaturgic interactions shape touristic relations, spaces, and systems. This note presents a novel theoretical analytic to study symbolic action and embodied tourism performances. This dramatological perspective seeks to understand the civic dramaturgic processes of extracting shared meaning from the co-performance and instantiation of symbolic representa…
Cases For Event Management and Event Tourism
A must have collection for all those studying and teaching event management and event tourism.
Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations
The Morphosynthesis of Event Portfolios
Despite the increasing employment of event portfolios by cities and regions to obtain a number of gains, there is a rather slow response from the academic community to fully understand this complex phenomenon and its potential social value. To address this asymmetry furthering the gap between scholarship and practice, the purpose of this article is to theorize the generative mechanisms that shape portfolios as social systems. Based on up-to-date …
Interscopic fan travelscape
Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive from blending different genres that enable symbiotic effects, for example, between sport and art. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of how event-tourism is interwoven and merged with sporting and cinematic popular culture, thereby creating a comp…
Sensitizing the social-ecosystems of outdoor sport environments
This paper focuses on the social features of participation in outdoor sports that play a significant role in the lived experience of participants, and in their interactions with the environment. These embodied interactions can bridge nature and culture, and inform interventions for more sustainable ecosystems. Conceptual methods were used to explain the sport-nature-culture nexus and postulate an interdisciplinary framework of social sport ecolog…
Strategic event leveraging
"This book comprehensively describes, explains, critiques and refines our current perspectives of event leveraging and, in so doing, provides an analytic account of the event leveraging subject area as a whole, as it concerns the strategic pursuit of attaining and magnifying benefits that derive from events"
Dictionary of Event Studies, Event Management and Event Tourism
This Dictionary, produced by a distinguished and varied panel of international editors, is an invaluable reference for students, academics, practitioners, researchers, policy makers. For the first time, it compiles and defines a comprehensive glossary of terms used in the event-specific literature. Whilst many of these terms are commonplace, their usage in the events literature is often specific and in need of interpretation. Whilst there are num…
Crisis Management and Recovery for Events
Reveals how to effectively manage events in times of crisis, and leveraging events for post-disaster recovery. The volume brings together theoretical and practical insights in order to set up a robust ground for effective crisis management and recovery strategies of events
Event portfolio management
Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future
Event Portfolio Management
A concise introduction to portfolio theory and methods for use in event management and event tourism. Divided into 2 parts of ‘Theory’ and ‘Practice’ it explains why it is important in event studies and management, and then shows how related methods can be used and adapted using real world international case studies
Conceptualising on-screen tourism destination development
This article integrates cultural theory and marketing strategy to examine the complex relationship between on-screen popular culture and tourism destination place-making. Its review of the literature results in the development of an interdisciplinary conceptual framework (termed ‘on-screen dollying’) that provides a culturally grounded and contextually driven theorisation of the means by which on-screen popular culture place-making can foster des…
For the benefit of all? Developing a critical perspective in mega-event leverage
The purpose of this article is to bring to light the need for developing a critical leveraging perspective on mega-events and propose a research agenda that extends the focus of the leverage concept towards this direction. Current research on leverage focuses on the attainment and magnification of mega-event outcomes. A critical lens of inquiry however is needed to move forward and take into account the influence of power structures and social-or…
Fostering the social utility of events
Although the use of planned events for achieving community development has received academic attention from different disciplines, the findings of these literatures are not systematically used towards developing a common understanding aimed at fostering their social utility. The challenge then is to study from an integrated interdisciplinary perspective how the social value of events can be fostered and leveraged for community development. In add…
Olympic legacy and cultural tourism
The Olympic Games have evolved into the most prestigious sport event on the planet. As a consequence, each Games generates more and more interest from the academic community. Sociology, politics, geography and history have all played a part in helping to understand the meanings and implications of the Games. Heritage, too, offers invaluable insights into what we value about the Games, and what we would like to pass on to future generations. Each …
The show must go on
Event dramaturgy and cultural performance have not been examined in the literature from a strategic standpoint of fostering the social value of events. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the case of the Water Carnival, a celebratory event in a rural community of Southwest Texas, demonstrating the essence of this event as a symbolic social space, wherein event participants instantiate a shared and valued sense of community. A hermeneut…
For the benefit of all? Developing a critical perspective in mega-event leverage
The purpose of this article is to bring to light the need for developing a critical leveraging perspective on mega-events and propose a research agenda that extends the focus of the leverage concept towards this direction. Current research on leverage focuses on the attainment and magnification of mega-event outcomes. A critical lens of inquiry however is needed to move forward and take into account the influence of power structures and social-or…
Fostering the social utility of events
Although the use of planned events for achieving community development has received academic attention from different disciplines, the findings of these literatures are not systematically used towards developing a common understanding aimed at fostering their social utility. The challenge then is to study from an integrated interdisciplinary perspective how the social value of events can be fostered and leveraged for community development. In add…
The show must go on
Event dramaturgy and cultural performance have not been examined in the literature from a strategic standpoint of fostering the social value of events. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the case of the Water Carnival, a celebratory event in a rural community of Southwest Texas, demonstrating the essence of this event as a symbolic social space, wherein event participants instantiate a shared and valued sense of community. A hermeneut…
Conceptualising on-screen tourism destination development
This article integrates cultural theory and marketing strategy to examine the complex relationship between on-screen popular culture and tourism destination place-making. Its review of the literature results in the development of an interdisciplinary conceptual framework (termed ‘on-screen dollying’) that provides a culturally grounded and contextually driven theorisation of the means by which on-screen popular culture place-making can foster des…
Olympic legacy and cultural tourism
The Olympic Games have evolved into the most prestigious sport event on the planet. As a consequence, each Games generates more and more interest from the academic community. Sociology, politics, geography and history have all played a part in helping to understand the meanings and implications of the Games. Heritage, too, offers invaluable insights into what we value about the Games, and what we would like to pass on to future generations. Each …
Interscopic fan travelscape
Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive from blending different genres that enable symbiotic effects, for example, between sport and art. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of how event-tourism is interwoven and merged with sporting and cinematic popular culture, thereby creating a comp…
Sensitizing the social-ecosystems of outdoor sport environments
This paper focuses on the social features of participation in outdoor sports that play a significant role in the lived experience of participants, and in their interactions with the environment. These embodied interactions can bridge nature and culture, and inform interventions for more sustainable ecosystems. Conceptual methods were used to explain the sport-nature-culture nexus and postulate an interdisciplinary framework of social sport ecolog…
Event portfolio management
Reclaiming drama in tourism research
Drama as symbolic action is overlooked in tourism research failing to take into account how dramaturgic interactions shape touristic relations, spaces, and systems. This note presents a novel theoretical analytic to study symbolic action and embodied tourism performances. This dramatological perspective seeks to understand the civic dramaturgic processes of extracting shared meaning from the co-performance and instantiation of symbolic representa…
The show must go on
Event dramaturgy and cultural performance have not been examined in the literature from a strategic standpoint of fostering the social value of events. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the case of the Water Carnival, a celebratory event in a rural community of Southwest Texas, demonstrating the essence of this event as a symbolic social space, wherein event participants instantiate a shared and valued sense of community. A hermeneut…
Fostering the social utility of events
Although the use of planned events for achieving community development has received academic attention from different disciplines, the findings of these literatures are not systematically used towards developing a common understanding aimed at fostering their social utility. The challenge then is to study from an integrated interdisciplinary perspective how the social value of events can be fostered and leveraged for community development. In add…
Olympic legacy and cultural tourism
The Olympic Games have evolved into the most prestigious sport event on the planet. As a consequence, each Games generates more and more interest from the academic community. Sociology, politics, geography and history have all played a part in helping to understand the meanings and implications of the Games. Heritage, too, offers invaluable insights into what we value about the Games, and what we would like to pass on to future generations. Each …
For the benefit of all? Developing a critical perspective in mega-event leverage
The purpose of this article is to bring to light the need for developing a critical leveraging perspective on mega-events and propose a research agenda that extends the focus of the leverage concept towards this direction. Current research on leverage focuses on the attainment and magnification of mega-event outcomes. A critical lens of inquiry however is needed to move forward and take into account the influence of power structures and social-or…
Conceptualising on-screen tourism destination development
This article integrates cultural theory and marketing strategy to examine the complex relationship between on-screen popular culture and tourism destination place-making. Its review of the literature results in the development of an interdisciplinary conceptual framework (termed ‘on-screen dollying’) that provides a culturally grounded and contextually driven theorisation of the means by which on-screen popular culture place-making can foster des…
Event Portfolio Management
A concise introduction to portfolio theory and methods for use in event management and event tourism. Divided into 2 parts of ‘Theory’ and ‘Practice’ it explains why it is important in event studies and management, and then shows how related methods can be used and adapted using real world international case studies
Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future
Strategic event leveraging
"This book comprehensively describes, explains, critiques and refines our current perspectives of event leveraging and, in so doing, provides an analytic account of the event leveraging subject area as a whole, as it concerns the strategic pursuit of attaining and magnifying benefits that derive from events"
Dictionary of Event Studies, Event Management and Event Tourism
This Dictionary, produced by a distinguished and varied panel of international editors, is an invaluable reference for students, academics, practitioners, researchers, policy makers. For the first time, it compiles and defines a comprehensive glossary of terms used in the event-specific literature. Whilst many of these terms are commonplace, their usage in the events literature is often specific and in need of interpretation. Whilst there are num…
Crisis Management and Recovery for Events
Reveals how to effectively manage events in times of crisis, and leveraging events for post-disaster recovery. The volume brings together theoretical and practical insights in order to set up a robust ground for effective crisis management and recovery strategies of events
Event portfolio management
The Morphosynthesis of Event Portfolios
Despite the increasing employment of event portfolios by cities and regions to obtain a number of gains, there is a rather slow response from the academic community to fully understand this complex phenomenon and its potential social value. To address this asymmetry furthering the gap between scholarship and practice, the purpose of this article is to theorize the generative mechanisms that shape portfolios as social systems. Based on up-to-date …
Interscopic fan travelscape
Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive from blending different genres that enable symbiotic effects, for example, between sport and art. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of how event-tourism is interwoven and merged with sporting and cinematic popular culture, thereby creating a comp…
Sensitizing the social-ecosystems of outdoor sport environments
This paper focuses on the social features of participation in outdoor sports that play a significant role in the lived experience of participants, and in their interactions with the environment. These embodied interactions can bridge nature and culture, and inform interventions for more sustainable ecosystems. Conceptual methods were used to explain the sport-nature-culture nexus and postulate an interdisciplinary framework of social sport ecolog…
Cases For Event Management and Event Tourism
A must have collection for all those studying and teaching event management and event tourism.
Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations
Reclaiming drama in tourism research
Drama as symbolic action is overlooked in tourism research failing to take into account how dramaturgic interactions shape touristic relations, spaces, and systems. This note presents a novel theoretical analytic to study symbolic action and embodied tourism performances. This dramatological perspective seeks to understand the civic dramaturgic processes of extracting shared meaning from the co-performance and instantiation of symbolic representa…
Civic Dramaturgy and World-Making
The drama enacted in communal settings of real life symbolically gives meaning to people and things shaping various public spheres and their world-making practices, thereby ultimately ordering the makeup of society. It does so, as it is omnipresent in social life and able to convert ideas to collective action through enunciations of embodied performances. Nevertheless, the nature, constitution, processes, and outcomes of social drama are poorly u…
From environmental sustainability to climate change adaptation
In recent years, the field of sport ecology research has grown, and its focus has broadened. Initially, this subdiscipline of sport management concentrated on the relationship between sport and environmental sustainability. More recently, attention has shifted towards the connection between sport and climate change. Despite this broadening, there has been little academic discussion about the factors driving this change or its implications for spo…
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (18 works) · Business (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Tourism (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (4 works) · Engineering (4 works)