Events and the framing of peoples and places: acts of declaration/acts of devilry

This chapter explores how Quinn has pointedly called for more sustained investigation into matters of connectivity, which special events indeed have in terms of communal meaning and stakeholder/interest group support. Quinn's significant contribution to the Jamal and Robinson state-of-the-art inspection of Tourism Management/Tourism Sciences amounts to a reflective and penetrative commentary of the lead imperatives and the suppressed orientations which crop up in Event Management/Event Studies. Quinn bemoans the general shortfall of interdisciplinary cum multidisciplinary investment into the political profile of events, and thinks that lack has stymied conceptual awareness in the demesne of event development. The chapter presents the preliminary thinking of Hollinshead by providing a more substantial glossary which can prompt deeper and richer thinking on matters of research design within Event Studies. In selecting the 30 illustrative terms/concepts, the initial aim has been to respect Quinn's clear view that research into event management and event development remains a somewhat stilted and logocentric activity.