Events and Infrastructures : Critical Interrogations (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Lost in Infrastructure.  Part 1. Infrastructuring Space.  2. Revisiting the Spatial Relationships Between Mega-Events and Host Cities.  3. Interrogating Event-Induced but Underused Infrastructures: The White Elephants of Spanish Mega-Events Linked to the Neoliberal Urbanism of Recent Decades.  4. The ‘Circus’ is Coming to Town… Literally. Contestation and Conflict Around Formula 1 Street Circuits.  5. Culture, Cognition, Events, and Infrastructures.  Part 2. Event Infrastructures as Expressions of in/Equality.  6. Exclusive Expectations: Examining the VIP Experience at UK Music Events.  7. Infrastructuring an Event. FemIT Conf 2021: Diversity and Technology in Argentina.  8. Transforming Attitudes through Strategic Infrastructuring: The Tumaini Festival in Malawi’s Dzaleka Refugee Camp.  9. The Genesis of a Shared World Through Event Infrastructure: A Phenomenological Investigation of Communitarisation in Shared and Extraordinary Experiences.  Part 3. Events as Infrastructure.  10. An Analysis of Multicultural Trends Underlying the Maltese Festa in a Digital Era.  11. Events as Infrastructure and Learning Experiences: Exemplified on an Alpine Peripheral Living Lab in Rural Switzerland.  12. Events as Soft Infrastructure for Urban Development? Learning from the Italian Capital of Culture Initiative.  13. Beyond Control: Critical Reflections on Infrastructure and Events.  14. Last words? ? Unconclusive remarks.