Festivalization of Minority Claims for Public Belonging : Styles of Festivalization and different conceptions of Civic remedy
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Recent years have seen a rapid increase in initiatives that blend artistic practices with civic action and use cultural events to foster intercultural dialogue and promote ethnic and social diversity. Such events create space for collective coordination of a great variety of social actors and open new possibilities for tackling social exclusion of minority groups. I explore three civically engaged cultural festivals that take place in the Central European cities of Vienna, Bratislava, and Brno and, drawing on the pragmatic sociology and civic action approach, I identify several scene styles of collective coordination commonly generated by these festivals. I discuss different conceptions of the civic worth each of these scene styles promotes and focus on wider implications of the respective styles for the capacity of festival organisers to succeed in promoting the civic goals they envision and to inspire civic engagement among the public. |
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