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    This book begins with a synopsis of events that are important to the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico. This summary establishes a contextual background for the pioneer vignettes that follow. These brief sketches are mostly about pioneer Mexican Latter-day Saints and focus mainly on their conversions, their lives as new members of the Church, and what happened to ... Read more

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  • Liminality and Critical Event Studies

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    Edited by Ian R. Lamond, Jonathan Moss ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of events. It will be of interest to researchers in event studies, social and discursive psychology, cultural and political sociology, and social movement studies. In addition, it will provide interested general readers with new ways of thinking and reflecting on events. ... Read more

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  • Well Behaved Women

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  • Leisure, Activism, and the Animation of the Urban Environment

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  • Death and Events

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    Innovative and the first of its kind, this informative and multidisciplinary book explores the socio-cultural significance inherent in event infrastructures.While mainstream event management literature addresses event infrastructures mainly through its operational relevance, this carefully compiled edited volume takes infrastructures as an analytical point in respect to its social, political, ... Read more

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    This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring at the juncture of critical approaches in leisure studies and event studies within diverse explorations of deviance. It includes chapters on games and gaming; performing queerness; events around being kinkster; drugs and sex, LGBTQ+ events and activism, and goth ... Read more

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  • Protests as Events

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