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Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era
In Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era, Daniel Bare offers a paradigm for thinking through how one should consider the role of race in the fundamentalist movement. For Bare, because these Black Christians make use of fundamentalist theology, tropes, and anti-modernist preaching; link Christianity to Americanism; and appropriate the name of \"fundamentalist\" to themselves, it is reasonable to call them fundamentalists. Mathews, in her book Doctrine and Race, frames fundamentalism as a fundamentally racialized project, outlining the ways in which African American Protestants adapted elements of fundamentalism while still maintaining that white fundamentalists hesitated to view them as their own.
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Event Policy
As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive 'events' policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation.
Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to embrace this new direction in the field of events management. Its main aim is to locate the phenomena of events (and festivity) within a theoretical and strategic framework and, in doing so, demonstrate the links between the development of events in policy-making and the theoretical exploration of the role of events as policy. Building on a strong coherent framework, the book explores the conceptual terrain in which events and festivities are located, evaluates the range of theoretical perspectives pertinent to the study of events policy, appraises the socio-economic and socio-cultural implications of event-led policies internationally and draws together the main theoretical and event policy issues for the future. It utilizes a good range of international cases, from Dubai, Singapore, New Orleans and Glasgow, to help demonstrate the relationships between theory and strategy, and includes useful features to help students understand the subject and deepen their knowledge of the events policy terrain.
This groundbreaking volume will be essential reading for students, researchers and academics of events and other related disciplines.
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Policy pragmatism: Qatar and the global events circuit
Purpose - The paper aims to give an interesting insight into the rise in event bidding and delivery of sports mega-events from Qatar and the Middle East. This paper seeks to examine the shift in government policies and citizen relationships in the Middle East and Gulf Region, focusing on the specific case of Qatar from its staging of the 15th Asian Games in 2006 to present.Design methodology approach - The paper begins with an overview of the main literature on the importance of sport events as a vehicle for securing global profile for cities and nations. The paper draws upon the authors' participation at the 15th Asian Games and interviews conducted there and latterly, desk-based research involving scrutiny of Qatar's recent policy pronouncements and published materials pertaining to sporting events in the intervening period since the 2006 Games.Findings - The findings are presented in the form of a case study, using the Asian Games as a starting point and finishing with Qatar's latest bids for sporting mega-events. The paper presents a conceptual analysis of the situation in Doha and reveals a ten-year strategy from Qatar to set itself apart from its neighbors in bidding to host mega-sporting events and in its progress in terms of civil rights for women. This has allowed wider participation in sport and ensured Qatar can bid for the most prestigious global sporting events.Research limitations implications - This paper adds to the wider public policy discussion and contributes to the body of knowledge in this area. The authors have written extensively on events policy but believe issues of democracy versus ruling states, emotional bidding and awarding to such states will continue to rise over the coming years and these have significant implications for both event owners in awarding such bids but also for policy makers in legitimizing bidding for such events in this context.Originality value - The paper reveals that the currency of awarding events to countries in the Middle East, Africa and South America is politically and socially important and of major interest to both the public and academics at present.
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Research themes for events
*The first book to cover events management from a research angle*Includes a number of case studies to provide a well-rounded approach to the subject*Addresses key concepts, theories and discussions around subjects such as consumer behaviour, authenticity and new technology
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Women at leisure and in work - unequal opportunities?
Explores the changing relationship between work and leisure with particular reference to women's equality in economic and other activities through a review of the history of leisure opportunities since the industrial revolution; indicates the ways in which social and economic changes have had a major impact on women's leisure needs and activities. Focuses in particular on the provision of workplace fitness facilities, undertaking a survey of more than 200 companies across a number of industry sectors (the rationale for selection is outlined here) to discover the reasons behind such provision and the actual facilities provided; identifies the reasons behind provision as primarily commercial (e.g. being seen as an additional benefit to help recruit high quality employees) and notes that assessment of user group needs was not carried out, with the result that women's particular needs tended not to be taken into account, for example gyms (favoured by men) being more widely provided than space for aerobic exercise (favoured by women). Concludes that the findings strongly suggest that women remain unequal in their leisure as well as working lives.
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The UK context of workplace empowerment Debating HRM and postmodernity
This paper seeks to connect recent theory and practice in HRM with the postmodern critique in order to inform understanding of the work context for empowerment by examining the contemporary nature of the employment relationship between employers' and employees' interests. First, it explores concepts of HRM within a framework of work and society. Thereafter, these issues are explored within the context of a specific example - that of ScottishPower. Finally, HRM is problematised via postmodern critique and offered as discourse between theory and practice.
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