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Capitalist Surrealism of Chinese Burning Man

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
Burning Man, the prototypical transformational event culture, has been described as “a guerrilla war against alienated spectacle and the commodification of the collective imagination.” At the same time, it has spawned spectacular efforts at the ...
Ian Rowen
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Assessment of noise pollution of fireworks during Christmas and New Year in the city of Buenos Aires: comparison with a different management strategy applied to the city of Santiago de Chile

Discover Environment, 2023
Fireworks are widely celebrated worldwide but have raised environmental concerns due to pollutant emissions. This has prompted evolving legislation in many countries, necessitating scientific evidence for policy development.
Esteban N. Lombera, Guillermo Bori, Ramiro O. Vergara   +2 more
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Film Festivals as Spaces for Knowledge Exchange and Community Building

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
In this article, Ana Rosa Marques discusses the origins and development of CachoeiraDoc, an annual documentary film festival organized since 2010 by the faculty and students of the Film and Audiovisual Program at the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da ...
Ana Rosa Marques, Isabel Machado
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From the Grand Hotel to the Piazza Grande

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
The Locarno Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Founded in 1946, it is today widely recognized as an international hub for emerging cinema.
Cyril Cordoba
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Where You Are

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
This article uses the author’s auto/ethnographic experience while participating in a shuffle circle to interrogate the stakes at play when a shuffle circle and a community are created at an electronic dance music (EDM) event. Shuffle circles develop as a
Aydin Man Chun Quach, Timothy Nguyen
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Traditional Festivals

Journal of Festive Studies, 2019
This essay considers both the history of the growing academic field of festive studies and the history of my own involvement in this field. I first rely on some of the major works of accepted scholarship to show that social scientists and ethnologists ...
Laurent Sébastien Fournier
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“Partying with a Purpose” at Malawi’s Lake of Stars Festival

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
Founded in 2003, the Lake of Stars Festival (LOS) has grown to become the largest annual beach party in Malawi, and one of the largest on the African continent.
Sitingawawo Kachipande
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Cultural Studies, Festival Studies and Promising Research Areas of Festival Practices

, 2023
The aim of the article is to analyse the potential of convergence between Festival Studies and Cultural Studies, to outline promising areas of research on festival practices at the pres­ent stage based on the correlation of the mentioned studios. Research results.
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Imagination vs. routines: festive time, weekly time, and the predictive brain [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Pierluigi Sacco, Sacco Pier Luigi
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Terrain festif contemporain : une mise en perspective de fêtes et festivals

Socio-anthropologie, 2018
The festive dimension is a complex component of social life that is still difficult to define. Marked by the ephemeral imprint and anchored in the sociocultural universe where it is realized, each festive event is a subject of study by its own. Taking in
Céline Spinelli
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