“…More recently, this research has shaped a rich and diverse body of work on spectacle and (national) celebration cultures around the world (e.g. Adams, 2010;Adams & Rustemova, 2009;Chatty, 2009;Dines, 2021;Duffy & Mair, 2017;Foxall, 2014;Fuller, 2004;Gotham, 2011;Hagen, 2008;Hagen & Ostergren, 2006;Harrison, 2000;Harvey et al, 2007;Hintz & Quatrini, 2021;Hung, 2007;Johnson, 1994;Koch, 2016Koch, , 2018aKoch, , 2019aKoch, , 2022Kong & Yeoh, 1997;Laszczkowski, 2016;Ley & Olds, 1988;Merkel, 2010Merkel, , 2013Nieto-Galan, 2022;Petrone, 2000;Podeh, 2011;Rohava, 2020;Rolf, 2013;Stewart, 2021;Vaczi, 2016;White & Frew, 2019;Wood, 2011). Much of this scholarship has focused on state-led or managed spectacles, illustrating how state power continues to be enacted through symbolic and celebratory events in many parts of the world, but especially in authoritarian systems.…”