Trade Shows in the 21st Century

Contents:

1 Introduction: the role of professional events in structuring
careers and professions 1
Sidonie Naulin and Anne-Sophie Beliard

PART I THE EMERGENCE OF AN OCCUPATIONAL
COMMUNITY
2 Festival sociability and professional careers: the role of TV
festivals in structuring the series scriptwriting profession 21
Anne-Sophie Beliard
3 Fab City Summit: structuring makerspace collectives
around event preparations 41
Flavie Genatio
4 Wedding business events: career tool and emerging market
sustainability solution 60
Tatiana Rubtcova
5 Failing to configure? The life and death of Forum Blanc 81
Romain Gandia and Charles-Clemens Ru?ling

PART II THE PERPETUATION OF AN
OCCUPATIONAL COMMUNITY
6 From small craft fair to international interior design trade
show: how Maison&Objet structured fine crafts in France
(1949-2021) 104
Anne Jourdain
7 Place your bets, all bets are off! Film festivals as devices
for the construction and management of uncertainty for
distributors and arthouse cinemas 123
Olivier Zerbib
8 "Not working ... networking!" Scripting and shaping
conviviality in trade events 140
Victor Potier

PART III THE TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF
A PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY
9 International trade before globalization: the invention of
international trade shows in France in the 1960s 158
Romain Lecler
10 B8, B7 and B20 summits as professional events: business
as usual or new opportunities for business organizations? 179
Marieke Louis
11 The role of professional gatherings in the globalization of
a professional space: the example of international food festivals 199
Sidonie Naulin
12 Afterword: Covid-19 and the digital quarantine of
event-based sociabilities 217
Victor Potier

Index

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• Gestão do pessoal e recursos humanos
• Psicologia ocupacional e industrial
• Sociologia: trabalho e mão de obra

Career; Profession; Professional event; Professional group; Sociology of work; Trade show