Gerard (Hrsg.) Delanty

Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere

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Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as examples of a particular aesthetic cosmopolitanism.The book approaches contemporary festivals as relatively autonomous social texts that need interpretation and contextualisation. This perspective, combined with a diversified set of theoretical approaches a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Giorgi, Liana (Hrsg.) / Sassatelli, Monica (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-136-73858-6
EAN: 9781136738586
Produktnummer: 13847602
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 742 KB
Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen

Über den Autor

Professor Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at the University of Sussex. He is the author of twelve books and editor of seven, including Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory (Routledge, 2006). His most recent publication is The Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Social Theory Renewal of Critical Social Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2009).Dr Liana Giorgi is Vice-Director of The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, and the coordinator of the EURO-FESTIVAL project on European arts festivals. She is co-author and co-editor of Democracy in the European Union: Towards the Emergence of a European Public Sphere (Routledge, 2006).Dr Monica Sassatelli is Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College. She has published in the sociology of culture, Europe as well as classical and contemporary social theory. She is the author of Becoming Europeans: Cultural Identity and Cultural Policies (Palgrave 2009).