On a global market, cities aim to develop a distinct proile to attract mobile consumers. One increasingly used means to attain distinction is to brand the city as experience space. Particularly, the urban festival has become a popular organizational form for creating experience spaces, and for marketing cities. Festivals are often strategically conceived with the purpose of promoting a 'distinctive city', in line with uniqueness being the keystone of success in the experience economy. his paper applies an experience economy framework to analyse city festivals as potentially transformative practices, helping reimagine urban space and reshape urban identity. Building on empirical studies of Stockholm Culture Festival and the Nowy Kercelak Fair in Warsaw, it examines the tension between controlled image production and carnivalesque celebration and the extent to which the meanings and low of urban space can be managed. Using Lefèbvre's notion of the production of space and Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of de-and reterritorialization, this paper critically assesses the possibility of reshaping urban practices through the staging of festivals, and the potential for creativity and expression extant in managed staging of experience.

Work organizations have long employed various management techniques in order to maximize workers’ engagement, which in itself implies that ‘alienation’ at work is common. One of the central descriptions of alienation in classic writings is the idea of not being ‘at home’ while at work. In this article, however, we explore its obverse, which we term ‘disalienation’ – a relationship to work based on assumptions concerning control and agency, aided by collective participatory mechanisms for identity construction and dialogical building of social relationships. We suggest that the concept and experience can be productively explored in the context of organizations which are owned and controlled by workers. Using ethnographic case studies from two Polish co-operatives, we discuss the potential characteristics of a disalienating relation to a work organization and suggest that co-operatives can provide a way for workers to be ‘at home’ while they are at work.

Abstractis article focuses on the dark and hidden aspects of experience economy events. ese aspects are framed as the shadow in the Jungian sense, i.e. an archetype of the unconscious domain. Individuals and organizations create a shadow as a side e ect of attempts at control and ordering of their identity. e article presents stories based on ethnographically inspired eld studies of experience economy events to show how staged experience produces an experiential shadow side. e process is problematized and re ected upon as a shadow producing side e ect of identity production and management in experience economy settings. e possibilities for the integration of the shadow into the normal operation of experience economy organizations are considered with the help of images of the carnival and the archetype the fool. e acceptance of the paradoxical and strange side of such events they may be better understood and their dark side integrated.

Abstracthis paper explores the potential for morally sustainable leadership, i.e. leadership with an awareness of both light dark sides contained in the role of the leader, as symbolized by the archetype of the king. A narrative enquiry aiming at the study of ictive stories authored by management theorists and practitioners from diferent contexts, interweaving collective individual elements, brings to light how issues of leadership goodness are related to each other and to other themes. he stories are presented as archetypical tales, that is, stories that touch profound aspects of culture the psyche. hey reveal what happens if people are asked to imagine a good manager, how this results in tragic ironic representations, rather than tales of straightforward goodness.

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