Festivals, Tourism and Social Change: Remaking Worlds

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David Picard, Mike Robinson
Channel View Publications, Oct 12, 2006 - Business & Economics - 288 pages

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
Celebration
84
The Making of Community Identity through Historic Festive
99
A Street Festival in the Croatian
119
Enhancing Vitality or Compromising Integrity? Festivals
133
The National Womens
152
The Camp Oven Festival and Australian Identity
191
Representing Regional
209
Identity and Place in the PostModern
222
Tourism in the Change from
238
Protest Carnival and Tourism at
269
Index
284
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David Picard is an anthropologist (PhD, University of La Reunion, France) and is currently working as a research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research interests focus on the cultural economics of international tourism, especially spaces and forms of exchange between hosts and guests. David's previous research has focused on the transformation of transnational contact zones and strategies of accommodating strangers in the post-plantation context of the island of La Réunion, Indian Ocean.

Mike Robinson is Professor of Tourism and Culture and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds, UK. Mike has research interests in the way that festivals are mobilised to animate spaces and re-invigorate societies and in the ways in which tourists encounter and experience festivity within cross-cultural contexts.

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