dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Jodie | |
dc.contributor.editor | Bennett, A | |
dc.contributor.editor | Taylor, J | |
dc.contributor.editor | Woodward, I | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-24T03:45:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-24T03:45:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-4094-3198-5 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4324/9781315558189 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/145003 | |
dc.description.abstract | Festivals have been an important part of social and cultural life for thousands of years. The morphology of festivals is not universal, as they take on different significance, form and meaning in various cultural, historical and contemporary contexts as well as within their own space-time constructions. Turner (1982), for example, argues that festivals function as liminal spaces and ritualized sites of transcendence and communitas. In Falassi’s (1987) classic festival study, festivals are considered to be a means to reinforce the shared values, identities, histories, ideologies and mythologies that bind a community, testifying to the longevity and triumph of a community while also indulging in spectacle and celebration. In Bakhtinian (1984) terms, festivals can temporarily facilitate the playful transgression of authority and the symbolic inversion of social hierarchies through carnivalesque ritual and spectacle. In other words, festivals can function as politicized cultural practices and sanctioned forms of collective dissent, offering a limited means of defying hegemonic culture and social norms of the time. Through temporary public gatherings of ideologically aligned communities and/ or minoritarian people, festivals can at the very least expose cultural boundaries and afford some communities greater visibility. At best, they can command the attention of the majoritarian public sphere, making visible what is usually suppressed and generating a collective voice of resistance to cultural authority. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Ashgate | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.publisher.uri | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317031871/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315558189-10 | |
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitle | The Festivalization of Culture | |
dc.relation.ispartofchapter | 2 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 27 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 48 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Sociology not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 441099 | |
dc.title | Festivalizing Sexualities: Discourses of ‘Pride’, Counterdiscourses of ‘Shame’ | |
dc.type | Book chapter | |
dc.type.description | B1 - Chapters | |
dc.type.code | B - Book Chapters | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Taylor, Jodie L. | |