Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking WorldsDavid Picard, Mike Robinson This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book locates festivals in the constantly changing, socio-economic and political contexts that they always operate in and respond to - contexts that are both historical and modern at the same time. Tourism is bound closely together with such contexts; feeding and challenging festivals with audiences that are increasingly transient and transnational. Tourism interrogates notions of ritual and tradition, shapes new spaces and creates, and renews, relationships between participants and observers. No longer can we dismiss tourists simply as value neutral and crass consumers of spectacle, nor tourism as some inevitable commercial force. Tourism is increasingly complicit in the festival processes of re-invention, and in forming new patterns of social existence. |
Contents
Performing Identities in a Contemporary | 32 |
A Popular | 46 |
Gauchos Pachamama Queens | 71 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking Worlds David Picard,Mike Robinson Limited preview - 2006 |
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking Worlds David Picard,Mike Robinson Limited preview - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
argued Ashbourne Asian attract audiences Australian authenticity become Bishkek Boissevain Camp Oven Camp Oven Festival Carnivalists celebration centre chapter Christmas markets community identity contemporary context created CRUZ The University cultural tourism dance Days of Radunica destination diaspora Durban economic Edinburgh Mela ethnic Europride event experience forms global globalisation groups heritage Hill Carnival Hogmanay increasingly Indian international tourism island Kyrgyz Kyrgyzstan large number Legend LGBT London maloya Manas epos Mardi Gras Mela Millmerran modern National Women's Arts organisers Pachamama parade participants performances play political postmodern Press promotion protest Québec City RBKC regional Réunion ritual role Routledge Royal Shrovetide Football Sardinia sense Shrovetide social society South spectacle statutory stakeholders street symbolic tion Tiroler Tageszeitung tourism development town traditional transformation transnational Turkic Tyrolean University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA urban Urry village visitors Women's Arts Festival