Feminist politics in the festival space

Coyle, Tasmin; Platt, Louise

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“…En las últimas décadas, se ha tomado una creciente conciencia de la relevancia de la cultura festiva y los rituales que se desarrollan para la configuración de interacciones y representaciones que reproducen la desigualdad social y de género (Coyle y Platt, 2018). En este sentido, el caso de las Fallas de València es un caso excepcional para observar que el cuerpo de la mujer y su representación se han convertido en un objeto de disputa respecto al cual se hacen escuchar los discursos tradicionalistas de la festividad, heredados del franquismo.…”

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“…Investigació feminista 44, 2024, 1-36 -ISSNe: 2340-4795 -DOI: http://10.6035/asparkia.6951 que afecta a las mujeres víctimas de esta situación (Scribano, 2017). Así, las luchas en las festividades tradicionales no son consideradas secundarias, sino, al contrario, centrales para la dominación y la reproducción de las desigualdades en general y de las de género en particular (Picard, 2016;Coyle y Platt, 2018). En este marco interpretativo, el cuerpo de las mujeres deviene el centro de una pugna simbólica y política donde se revelan las violencias ejercidas por las interpretaciones hegemónicas de la cultura festiva (Lewis, 1996;Longhurst y Johnston, 2014).…”

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The Representation of the Female Body in Dispute. Feminism and Counter-Feminism in the Fallas of València

Rius Ulldemolins,

Díaz Solano,

Gisbert Gracia

2024

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Las fiestas neotradicionales como las Fallas están siendo objeto de creciente atención por su capacidad de definir roles y, con ello, por su peso en la reproducción o el impulso del cambio social. Así, la representación del cuerpo de la mujer en la fiesta de las Fallas se ha convertido con mayor frecuencia en un campo de batalla. El estudio a partir de la observación y de los grupos de discusión confirma que continúa existiendo una hipersexualización y un machismo en los ninots (esculturas) de la fiesta, pero se observa a la vez una mayor presencia de la crítica y un surgimiento de representaciones más inclusivas o directamente reivindicativas del feminismo. Sin embargo, estos cambios se enfrentan al control casi absoluto y a la lógica heteronormativa de los sectores tradicionalistas asentados desde tiempos franquistas; así como, al mismo tiempo, deben lidiar con una reacción antifeminista acorde con la extrema derecha que intenta redefinir la reivindicación feminista como una conspiración contra la libertad y que se expresa con una crítica cada vez más abierta y en ocasiones agresiva contra los intentos de cambio de la representación de la mujer y su rol en la fiesta.

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The Representation of the Female Body in Dispute. Feminism and Counter-Feminism in the Fallas of València

Rius Ulldemolins,

Díaz Solano,

Gisbert Gracia

2024

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“…Although there had been a tendency to confine feminist event study to specifically feminist events, such as Ladyfest (O'Shea, 2014), Riot Grrrl festivals (Pavlidis, 2012) and lesbian womyn festivals (Browne, 2011), there has more recently been a shift to expand this view to include all types of events of different scopes and sizes, not only those that would be considered gender-related based on content and design. For example, this includes popular music festivals (Coyle and Platt, 2018), Olympic Games (Matheson and Finkel, 2013), international conferences (Henderson, 2016), and so forth. As part of examining the “doing”, “undoing” and “redoing” of gender in event spaces, the gender-aware researcher must ask, how are gender identities re/constructed in festival and event spaces?…”

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“Doing gender” in critical event studies: a dual agenda for research

Dashper

Finkel

2020

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PurposeTo introduce critical gender theory to events studies and set an agenda for research in this area. This paper focuses on various contexts, approaches and applications for “doing gender” in critical event studies. It draws upon interdisciplinary frameworks to develop robust theoretical ways of interrogating issues related to power and structural inequalities in events contexts.Design/methodology/approachA conceptual discussion of “doing gender” and critical gender theory and review of relevant research in this area within event studies. Adopting feminist and intersectional perspectives and applying them to events environments has potential to inform current theoretical developments and wider sector practices, and, ultimately, change the dominant heteronormative patriarchal paradigm of the experiential landscape.FindingsEvent studies has been slow to engage with gender theory and gender-aware research, to the detriment of theoretical and practical development within the field.Research limitations/implicationsA call for more gender-aware research within event studies. The goal of this paper is to galvanise gender-aware events research to centralise the marginalised and amplify feminist voices in critical event studies. Feminist and gender-aware frameworks encourage researchers to be critical and to question the underlying power structures and discourses that shape practices, behaviours and interactions. This creates new pathways to find ways to overcome inequalities, which can improve overall events praxis.Originality/valueThe paper introduces critical gender theory as a fruitful framework for future events research. It is an under-researched area of study, representing a significant gap in ways of theorising and representing different aspects of events. We argue it is imperative that researchers take up the challenge of incorporating feminist and/or gender-aware frameworks within their research as a matter of routine.

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“…Although more work is being published at the intersections of gender studies and critical event studies (e.g. Coyle & Platt, 2018;Crichton & Finkel, 2019;Dashper, 2013Dashper, , 2018Finkel & Dashper, 2020;Platt & Finkel, 2018;Pavlidis, 2012;Walters, 2018), it is still underexplored, emerging, and considered rather niche, often side-lined to its own segregated conference streams and special issues instead of embraced as an integral theme threaded through mainstream scholarship (Dashper & Finkel, 2020). Despite a growing body of work regarding human trafficking and sex work around mega sporting events (e.g.…”

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Gendered Violence at International Festivals

Platt¹,

Finkel

2020

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This introductory chapter argues that liminality as conceived by van Gennep (1960) and, subsequently, Turner (1969, 1979, 1982 within the festival literature has been undertheorised and, as a result, has limited event scholars' abilities to be critical of festival spaces, especially when it comes to gendered power dynamics and structural inequalities. There is an assumption that power is dispersed or even absent under 'communitas'. However, we argue there is often a neglect to understand how hegemonic cultural structures and social controls still govern these experiential settings. We also argue that festivals are too quickly seen as spaces of rupture when they are more likely to reinforce the status quo. This chapter frames the discussion around the increase in reported sexual assaults and gendered violence at festivals to argue that a persistence to characterise them as uncomplicated, value-free, utopic liminial/liminoid is highly problematic. It then presents the interdisciplinary chapters in this volume focusing on gendered violence at international festivals, and concludes with a 'call to arms' to change contemporary praxis in festival environs.

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Feminist politics in the festival space

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

The Representation of the Female Body in Dispute. Feminism and Counter-Feminism in the Fallas of València

The Representation of the Female Body in Dispute. Feminism and Counter-Feminism in the Fallas of València

“Doing gender” in critical event studies: a dual agenda for research

Gendered Violence at International Festivals

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