“…Besides my own effort to do so (Koch, 2018b, 2019b), sports studies scholars seldom frame their research as “event ethnography.” Rather, the term circulates most in the initial scholarship studying environmental conferences and summits through “collaborative event ethnography” (e.g. Brosius & Campbell, 2010; Büscher, 2014; Campbell et al., 2014; Corson et al., 2014; Duffy, 2014; Gray et al., 2014; Gray et al., 2020; Marion Suiseeya & Zanotti, 2019; Vadrot, 2020; Witter et al., 2015; Zanotti & Marion Suiseeya, 2020). International environmental summits might be considered a subset of what have been described as “field configuring events,” that is, events that bring together individuals belonging to a specific profession or interest group, but all of whom approach it in a unique fashion.…”