Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Beckett University. He has been Chair of the Leisure Studies Association and is currently Vice-President of Research Committee 13 (Sociology of Leisure) of the International Sociological Association. He has researched and published widely on leisure theory and leisure studies, with particular interests in music, tourism, sport, sub-cultures and the idea of communicative and instrumental leisure.

Ian R. Lamond is Senior Lecturer in Events at Leeds Beckett University. He is a member of the Political Studies Association, Media Communications and Cultural Studies Association and Leisure Studies Association. His research interests are wide ranging and include: critical event studies; protest as event; events in contested spaces, event theory; and the sociology of political institutions.

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