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1. Event Management

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

   Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new title from Routledge’s Critical Perspectives on Business and Management series is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in Event Management. The origins of the serious study of Event Management are comparatively recent,...

   To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Social Work & Received Ideas

   By Chris Rojek

   Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Popular Culture

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Research in and around popular culture continues to flourish. And its study is, more than ever, a key component of Media and Communications Studies courses, and a vital part of Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology curricula. The sheer scale of the available research exploring popular culture—and...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
4. Celebrity

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   In recent years, the study of celebrity has developed and cohered into a flourishing field of social and cultural analysis. There is huge interest in topics such as the politics and logic of glamour; the role of the public-relations industry in manipulating television audiences; the relationship...

   Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard

   Justice and Political Theory

   Edited by Chris Rojek, Mr Bryan S Turner, Bryan Turner

   Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O' Neill and Victor J. Seidler consider Lyotard's writings on justice and politics of difference,...

   Published June 10th 1998 by Routledge
6. Touring Cultures

   Transformations of Travel and Theory

   Edited by Chris Rojek, John Urry

   It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration. This collection brings together some of the most influential writers in the field to examine the complex connections between tourism and cultural change and the...

   Published May 14th 1997 by Routledge
7. Forget Baudrillard?

   Edited by Chris Rojek, Professor Bryan S Turner, Bryan Turner

   Published October 20th 1993 by Routledge