ISBN:
9780415821032
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (231 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Event Volunteering : International Perspectives on the Event Volunteering Experience
DDC:
302.14
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Volunteers make important contributions across the spectrum of event settings, most visibly at high profile mega events such as the Olympic Games they are volunteers are lauded as 'Games makers', 'unsung heroes' and the like. Less visibly volunteers are the heart and soul of community events and festivals, often undertaking multi-faceted roles from event leadership through to operations and ensuring that these celebrations are made possible in the absence of big budgets and professional event staff. This book is the first to showcase and advance international research into the volunteering exp
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction to event volunteering; Part I The event volunteer experience; 2 Peace, love and well-being: volunteering at the Peace & Love Festival in Borlänge, Sweden; 3 Securing your future: festival volunteering and graduate employability; 4 "We don't do that back home": international students and volunteering; Part II Managing the event volunteer; 5 The Spirit of Burgas Music Festival, Bulgaria: the management and experiences of volunteers
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The background in the limelight: volunteering in event management in Hungary7 Volunteers in social enterprise events: Triple Bottom Line benefits; Part III The volunteer program at mega-events; 8 Volunteer experiences in the build-up to the Rugby World Cup 2011; 9 Volunteering for an audience of billions: fifteen minutes of fame at an Olympic Games Opening Ceremony; 10 Emotions and the Olympic Games: the emotional management of volunteers; 11 The 2012 Ambassadors: second-class Olympic volunteers, or the best potential for developing a volunteer legacy from the Games?
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV Approaches to researching event volunteers12 Event Volunteering Evaluation (EVE) project: challenging the methodological limits of event volunteering research; 13 An ethnographic approach to researching volunteers in events: a case study of the Northern University Games, Australia; 14 Concluding thoughts; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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