GOGO events: a feminist ethics approach to using events for transformative change
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2017
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Higgins Desbiolles, F.
Monga, M.
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Time for big ideas? Re-thinking the field for tomorrow Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), 2017, vol.2017, pp.269-277
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CAUTHE 2017: Time for Big Ideas? Re-thinking the Field for Tomorrow (7 Feb 2017 - 10 Feb 2017 : Dunedin, New Zealand)
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Responsible and sustainable events are increasingly of interest to both academics and practitioners. Studies of social capital, event impacts and facets of event sustainability have featured in recent research, but little has been discussed about the capacities for social entrepreneurship in events. This paper presents a case study of an unusual events business known as GOGO Events founded by Sarah Gun in Adelaide. For some three years, GOGO has offered a social enterprise initiative training and supporting teams of marginalised and vulnerable people to create and install event installations. To accomplish this, GOGO Events has built a web of stakeholders which include: corporate clients; social services supporting homeless and vulnerable peoples; and these vulnerable peoples themselves, who together build networks of care and social change. Using the lens of feminist care ethics, we suggest some ways this might be used to advance work in the events field and further humanise our disciplines.
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Copyright 2017 CAUTHE