Trudie Walters, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests include media representations and individuals’ experiences of leisure phenomena, with a particular focus on events and second homes. She serves on the World Leisure Organisation Board of Directors, and is the Member Engagement Officer on the Board of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies. She is also Associate Editor and Reviews Editor of the journal Annals of Leisure Research.Allan Stewart Jepson, PhD, has contributed widely to event studies literature within the realm of community festivals and events. His seminal work investigated power; hegemony; and the construction, representation and consumption of culture(s) at a community festival, and was the first to reveal marginalised local communities trapped and under-represented in a community cultural festival. Allan has three key texts in event studies (Exploring Community Festivals and Events; Managing and Developing Communities, Festivals and Events; and Power, Construction and Meaning in Festivals), all edited with Alan Clarke, University of Pannonia, Hungary.

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• Chapter 1 Understanding the nexus of marginalisation and events Chapter 2 Marginalised groups and urban festivals in São Paulo and Lisbon: between social control, urban renewal and gentrification processes Chapter 3 ‘Proud to be South D’: perceptions of a street festival in a marginalised community in New Zealand Chapter 4 Disability and rural events: the cultural reproduction of inclusion and exclusion Chapter 5 ‘Demarginalising’ marginalised communities: the case of participatory arts events and the over 70s in rural Hertfordshire, the United Kingdom Chapter 6 The FAFSWAG Ball: event spaces, counter-marginal narratives and walking queer bodies into the centre Chapter 7 Transformative effects of hip-hop events in Khayelitsha, South Africa Chapter 8 Assessing the potential of the European Capital of Culture to integrate refugees: the case of Matera 2019 Chapter 9 Claiming space through events: the tension of homelessness in the world’s most liveable city Chapter 10 Understanding peripheral queer events: the case of Gay Ski Week, Queenstown, New Zealand Chapter 11 Barriers to access: investigation of plus-size women consumer experiences at fashion events Chapter 12 Creating safe space in a hostile place: exploring the Marathon of Afghanistan through the lens of safe space Chapter 13 'It allowed me to deliver the biggest show of their national tour': an examination of contemporary live music festivals in peripheral and geographically isolated locales Chapter 14 Events management for the end of life: mortality, mourning and marginalisation Chapter 15 Concluding upon marginalisation and events

Trudie Walters, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests include media representations and individuals’ experiences of leisure phenomena, with a particular focus on events and second homes. She serves on the World Leisure Organisation Board of Directors, and is the Member Engagement Officer on the Board of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies. She is also Associate Editor and Reviews Editor of the journal Annals of Leisure Research.Allan Stewart Jepson, PhD, has contributed widely to event studies literature within the realm of community festivals and events. His seminal work investigated power; hegemony; and the construction, representation and consumption of culture(s) at a community festival, and was the first to reveal marginalised local communities trapped and under-represented in a community cultural festival. Allan has three key texts in event studies (Exploring Community Festivals and Events; Managing and Developing Communities, Festivals and Events; and Power, Construction and Meaning in Festivals), all edited with Alan Clarke, University of Pannonia, Hungary.

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• Chapter 1 Understanding the nexus of marginalisation and events Chapter 2 Marginalised groups and urban festivals in São Paulo and Lisbon: between social control, urban renewal and gentrification processes Chapter 3 ‘Proud to be South D’: perceptions of a street festival in a marginalised community in New Zealand Chapter 4 Disability and rural events: the cultural reproduction of inclusion and exclusion Chapter 5 ‘Demarginalising’ marginalised communities: the case of participatory arts events and the over 70s in rural Hertfordshire, the United Kingdom Chapter 6 The FAFSWAG Ball: event spaces, counter-marginal narratives and walking queer bodies into the centre Chapter 7 Transformative effects of hip-hop events in Khayelitsha, South Africa Chapter 8 Assessing the potential of the European Capital of Culture to integrate refugees: the case of Matera 2019 Chapter 9 Claiming space through events: the tension of homelessness in the world’s most liveable city Chapter 10 Understanding peripheral queer events: the case of Gay Ski Week, Queenstown, New Zealand Chapter 11 Barriers to access: investigation of plus-size women consumer experiences at fashion events Chapter 12 Creating safe space in a hostile place: exploring the Marathon of Afghanistan through the lens of safe space Chapter 13 'It allowed me to deliver the biggest show of their national tour': an examination of contemporary live music festivals in peripheral and geographically isolated locales Chapter 14 Events management for the end of life: mortality, mourning and marginalisation Chapter 15 Concluding upon marginalisation and events

Trudie Walters, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests include media representations and individuals’ experiences of leisure phenomena, with a particular focus on events and second homes. She serves on the World Leisure Organisation Board of Directors, and is the Member Engagement Officer on the Board of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies. She is also Associate Editor and Reviews Editor of the journal Annals of Leisure Research.Allan Stewart Jepson, PhD, has contributed widely to event studies literature within the realm of community festivals and events. His seminal work investigated power; hegemony; and the construction, representation and consumption of culture(s) at a community festival, and was the first to reveal marginalised local communities trapped and under-represented in a community cultural festival. Allan has three key texts in event studies (Exploring Community Festivals and Events; Managing and Developing Communities, Festivals and Events; and Power, Construction and Meaning in Festivals), all edited with Alan Clarke, University of Pannonia, Hungary.

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• Chapter 1 Understanding the nexus of marginalisation and events Chapter 2 Marginalised groups and urban festivals in São Paulo and Lisbon: between social control, urban renewal and gentrification processes Chapter 3 ‘Proud to be South D’: perceptions of a street festival in a marginalised community in New Zealand Chapter 4 Disability and rural events: the cultural reproduction of inclusion and exclusion Chapter 5 ‘Demarginalising’ marginalised communities: the case of participatory arts events and the over 70s in rural Hertfordshire, the United Kingdom Chapter 6 The FAFSWAG Ball: event spaces, counter-marginal narratives and walking queer bodies into the centre Chapter 7 Transformative effects of hip-hop events in Khayelitsha, South Africa Chapter 8 Assessing the potential of the European Capital of Culture to integrate refugees: the case of Matera 2019 Chapter 9 Claiming space through events: the tension of homelessness in the world’s most liveable city Chapter 10 Understanding peripheral queer events: the case of Gay Ski Week, Queenstown, New Zealand Chapter 11 Barriers to access: investigation of plus-size women consumer experiences at fashion events Chapter 12 Creating safe space in a hostile place: exploring the Marathon of Afghanistan through the lens of safe space Chapter 13 'It allowed me to deliver the biggest show of their national tour': an examination of contemporary live music festivals in peripheral and geographically isolated locales Chapter 14 Events management for the end of life: mortality, mourning and marginalisation Chapter 15 Concluding upon marginalisation and events