Chapter 2. La Cavalcata Sarda: Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival

Urban Festivals: Geographies of Hype, Helplessness and Hope

“…In opting to limit my focus to these three themes, this article omits much of the work by geographers who have mapped the changing spatial patterns of urban festivals, and adopted managerial and economic approaches to model the ‘impacts’ of urban festivals on the economy, society or environment (for a review, see Gertz 2004). Equally beyond the scope of this review are festivals as a response to cultural dislocation brought about by growing numbers of diasporic communities (Nurse 1999; Quinn 2003a), the revival of so‐called ‘folkloric festivals’ (Azara and Crouch 2006) or ‘newly’ organised festivals, often in non‐urban settings, responding to rapid social change, such as those surrounding climate change, economic globalisation, or lesbian and gay rights (Duffy, Waitt and Gibson 2007).…”

UrbanDig Project: sport practices and artistic interventions for co-creating urban space

“…A community event with its festivities and collective interventions becomes a social space that (re)creates the audience's relations and multiple identities. Although the role of performance and dramaturgy has been explored well from a cultural perspective (Handelman, 1990;Turner, 1969;Azara and Crouch, 2006), it is largely unexplored in the sport events literature. Among the few studies in this field the work by Ziakas and Costa (2010) analysed how theatre and sport harmoniously co-exist in an event called Water Carnival 1 at the rural community of Fort Stockton in northwest Texas.…”