Cultural festivals and the city

Finkel, Rebecca; Platt, Louise

doi:10.1111/gec3.12498

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“…Festival scholars explore the social world; this includes the socio-cultural, economic, political and, more recently, environmental and spatial dimensions that are constructed by societal influences of a time and place. As Finkel and Platt (2020, para. 1) state, ‘Festivals have often been bridges between people and places, linking personal geography with collective experiences.…”

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The material culture of music festival fandoms

Barrière

Finkel

2020

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article aims to explore an under-researched area of the entanglements between festivals and individual/collective identities by focusing on the material culture of festival fandoms. We start by conceptualizing festival fandoms as communities of people who attend the same festival or a similar festival type on a repeated basis. Our research focuses on how these recurrent festival attendees materially express their belonging to such communities, and how they claim being a fan as part of their identity. The core of the article starts with three conceptual sections. There, we discuss the existing literature in different related areas of research, which we link together utilizing Bourdieu’s forms of capital. First, we look through the theoretical lens of social capital at how various types of festivals foster identity communities and contribute to their visibility. Second, we explore the function of festival merchandising from the perspective of both event managers and festival attendees within economic capital frameworks. And third, we explain that fans use derived products to mark their status and belonging to a community of taste as related to cultural capital conceptualizations. The following sections of the article are based on auto-ethnographic approaches. Through reminiscence and in-depth interviews with each other, we recount personal narratives of reflective practice and situate our lived experiences within the aforementioned conceptual contexts. As a conclusion, we state that investigating the material cultures of festival fandoms has the potential to contribute to future evolutions of event management.

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The material culture of music festival fandoms

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Finkel

2020

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Festivals offer an unsurpassed opportunity to facilitate this. Festivals – and a range of associated events such as fairs, street parties, carnivals and parades – are widely acknowledged as important communal activities that provide ‘temporary escapes from the mundane nature of everyday routines’ (Finkel and Platt, 2020: e12498), that assist in the construction of particular social and political identities, as well as a form of commodity that brings into the community social and economic capital (Duffy, 2019).…”

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“…Festival researchers continue to demonstrate the role such events play for our diverse communities, and their use in promoting social sustainability and equity for all (Hassanli et al, 2020). Thus, there remains a need to continue problematising and critically engaging with such ideas and practices, and facilitate the use of festivals as sites for on-going dialogue and negotiation between members of diverse communities (Finkel and Platt, 2020; Hassanli et al, 2020; Permezel and Duffy, 2007).…”

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Future trajectories of festival research

Duffy

Mair

2021

Tourist Studies

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In their editorial for the first issue of Tourist Studies, Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang made us aware that tourism research had shifted to an exploration of the extraordinary everyday where ‘more or less everyone now lives in a world rendered or reconfigured as interesting, entertaining and attractive – for tourists’. From our standpoint 20 years later, we suggest this particular departure point has important insights to offer our understanding of a quintessential tourism event, that of the festival, which now intervenes in daily life in all manner of ways. In this commentary, we present a reflective commentary on recent scholarship that advocates for more rigour in festival studies, with greater theory development and testing within the festival context, and how this work is suggestive of future directions for festival research. We present several areas that are ripe for further research, particularly given the tumultuous nature of the world we are living in, such as the challenges of climate change and how we might socialise in a post-Covid world. Much has changed in the 20 years since the inception of Tourist Studies, but festivals remain resilient – they will re-emerge in future, perhaps not unscathed but with a renewed sense of purpose.

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“…Cultural events are increasingly central to urban regeneration (Edensor et al, 2010). As identified by Finkel and Platt (2020), the UK's post-industrial cities, in particular, have recognized the value of cultural outputs in driving economic growth through aiding regeneration of urban areas, promoting the city to residents and visitors, and encouraging community involvement and cohesion. Key to the success of cultural events is their promotion as symbols of diversity and inclusion.…”

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(Re)crafting belonging: cultural-led regeneration, territorialization and craft beer events

Jong

Steadman

2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper contributes to debates on the use of cultural events to regenerate urban areas. Cultural geographers have identified the influence of such events in informing urban belonging, whilst being cautious towards the politics associated with claims of diversity and inclusion. Yet, what seldom features in such geographic accounts are the ways events influence, and are influenced by, inclusions and exclusions beyond their temporal and spatial confines, including how territorial processes flow in and across both online and offline spaces. In this paper, we thus adopt Brighenti's (2010) relational approach to territoriality to reveal the fluid and heterogeneous ways the Independent Manchester Beer Convention renders processes of inclusion and exclusion within, and beyond, the time and space of the craft beer event. Utilising fieldwork observations at the 2018 and 2019 conventions and 4,300 social media posts associated with the 2019 convention, we identify how particular subjectivities come to be included and excluded in different ways through the event. We argue that recognition regarding the fluidity and heterogeneity of territorial boundaries, and the role of affordances in shifting such boundaries, are imperative in the utilization of cultural events in generating inclusions through cultural-led regeneration.

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Cultural festivals and the city

Cited by 31 publications

References 69 publications

The material culture of music festival fandoms

The material culture of music festival fandoms

Future trajectories of festival research

(Re)crafting belonging: cultural-led regeneration, territorialization and craft beer events

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