Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking WorldsDavid Picard, Prof. 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. |
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La Cavalcata Sarda Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival | 32 |
Gardening the Past and Being in the World A Popular Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in La Réunion | 46 |
Becoming All Indian Gauchos Pachamama Queens and Tourists in the Remaking of an Andean Festival | 71 |
The Freedom of the Slaves to Walk the Streets Celebration Spontaneity and Revelry versus Logistics at the Notting Hill Carnival | 84 |
The Making of Community Identity through Historic Festive Practice The Case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football | 99 |
Creating the Rainbow Nation The National Womens Art Festival in Durban South Africa | 152 |
Kyrgyzstans Manas Epos Millennium Celebrations PostColonial Resurgence of Turkic Culture and the Marketing of Cultural Tourism | 172 |
The Camp Oven Festival and Australian Identity | 191 |
Christmas Markets in the Tyrolean Alps Representing Regional Traditions in a Newly Created World of Christmas | 209 |
The Placeless Festival Identity and Place in the PostModern Festival | 222 |
Gay and Lesbian Festivals Tourism in the Change from Politics to Party | 238 |
Mobility Diaspora and the Hybridisation of Festivity The Case of the Edinburgh Mela | 255 |
Taking Québec City Protest Carnival and Tourism at the Summit of the Americas | 269 |
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