Power relations and the production of new knowledge within a Queensland Music Festival community cultural development project

Stadler, Raphaela

doi:10.1080/11745398.2013.767220

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“…While some of the elements of our framework (e.g. providing a platform, giving ownership, making voices heard) have previously been explored in an events context (Arcodia and Whitford, 2007;Hassanli et al, 2019Hassanli et al, , 2020Stadler, 2013;Vorobjovas-Pinta and Hardy, 2020;Walters, 2019), studies have focused predominantly on attendees, on a single element, and not specifically on empowerment. This paper is the first to provide a holistic understanding of the process of empowerment, and to provide evidence that psychological empowerment accrues not only to event attendees from marginalised groups, but also to volunteers, stallholders and organisers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Rather, power/knowledge is embedded within social relationships between people, groups, stakeholders and organisations. The idea of power/knowledge relations has been applied to a festival case study by Stadler (2013), which highlighted the positive use of both power and knowledge between the festival organisers and the community: through engaging the community as equal partners throughout the creative process and by making their voices heard, the community felt empowered. At the same time, festival organisers gained new knowledge – they had to change their ways of thinking and working with the community and empowering them, rather than imposing their own ideas upon them.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, empowerment at the organisational level can include creating partnerships with the community and including them in the decision-making process, rather than imposing ideas and exercising power “over” them. This, in turn, can enhance empowerment at the community level through the community feeling a sense of pride and a sense of ownership of the event (Kay, 2000; Stadler, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Positive power: events as temporary sites of power which “empower” marginalised groups

Walters

Stadler

Jepson

2021

IJCHM

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Purpose The importance of events for marginalised groups has largely been overlooked within tourism, hospitality and event studies. The purpose of this study is to address this gap, emphasising the positive outcomes of power relationships rather than the negative, which have traditionally been the focus in event studies. Design/methodology/approach The study investigated eight events for indigenous and ethnic minority groups, rural women, disabled people and seniors in Australia and New Zealand. Qualitative data was collected via participant observation, reflexive ethnography, semi-structured interviews and in-the-moment conversations. An inductive thematic approach was taken to data analysis. Findings Eight themes around notions of power and empowerment were identified during the analysis: providing a platform, giving/taking ownership, gaining confidence, empowering with/through knowledge, respect, pride and affirmation, freedom to “be” and resistance. These were then viewed through the lenses of social-structural and psychological empowerment, enabling a deeper understanding of power at/through events. Research limitations/implications The paper presents a framework for empowerment that enables event organisers to both understand and deliberately plan for the productive use of power, which can reaffirm important event aims, objectives and values. It can also be used by researchers as a framework through which to identify and assess the contributing elements of empowerment at events and by local government to guide policymaking around events. Originality/value This study is the first to highlight best practices for the positive use of power at events that “empowers” marginalised groups. Grounded in empowerment theory, the study offers a new lens to reframe notions of power and provides a theoretical framework that will be of value for both critical event studies researchers, event organisers and policymakers alike.

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Positive power: events as temporary sites of power which “empower” marginalised groups

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Stadler

Jepson

2021

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“…While professional artists facilitated the youth involved to interpret and compile their work for final exhibition, it was the participants themselves who were the makers of the work and the beneficiaries, as described, of their reworked relationship with their landscapes. This reading offers a counterpoint to the kind of limiting discussion of arts projects in which desirable social or community outcomes are observed as a result of arts practice or cultural development programs, often inferring that the arts are instrumental without a clearly demonstrated understanding of the intrinsic qualities of the practices themselves (McHenry, 2011;Stadler, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Cultural development and local government: analytical frames, insights and observations

Lavarack

Ryan

2015

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration

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Over the last 50 years, local government in Australia has increasingly practiced cultural development as a means of supporting community cohesion, wellbeing, sense of identity and economic development. The practice includes activities intended to elicit, express or explore aspects of community life that lend themselves to these goals, including arts practices that are generally integral to the activities. The requirement of funding bodies to evaluate the effectiveness of subsidised programs has led to a tendency to view the arts instrumentally, that is, as a means to an end. That tends to leave discussion of the intrinsic value of the arts relatively undeveloped or unresolved. The paper argues for the use of an adaptive frame for evaluating cultural development and for cultural development's institutional contribution to local government and its communities to be better recognised. Integrated strategies are available for a systems view of cultural development and the paper discusses how this can contribute to governance approaches in local government.

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“…Dugas and Schweitzer (1997) maintain that to develop a sense of community is hard work, long term, especially to build levels of connectedness, belonging, and support. Previous studies have explored communities and engagement (Clarke & Jepson, 2011;Jepson & Clarke, 2005, 2009, 2013Jepson, Clarke, & Ragsdell, 2013Jepson, Wiltshire, & Clarke, 2008;Stadler, 2013), but none have examined the relationship, impacts, or engagement festivals and events have on an individual or on a family's QOL. Festivals can be understood as prime manifestations of the experience economy (Pine & Gilmore, 1999).…”

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Conceptualizing the Impact of Festival and Event Attendance Upon Family Quality of Life (QOL)

Jepson¹,

Stadler²

2017

Event Management

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Quality of life (QOL) research has been well explored in medicine, psychology, and the social sciences, although it has received very little attention within festival and event studies. This proposition article is both conceptual and exploratory and will seek to establish the foundations of a framework to investigate the impact(s) festivals and events may have upon individual and family QOL and to set an agenda for research into QOL in the field of festival and event studies. The article begins with a review of literature, which sets the conceptual nature of the article in the area of festival studies and in doing so investigates interconnected themes such as: political, social, cultural, and personal impact discourses. Following this our article provides a review of literature introducing key QOL theories, concepts, and research undertaken in previous studies. The article then progresses naturally into a discussion of the key differences and relationships between individual and family QOL, and provides an overview of previous research in festivals and events to allow the study to develop research questions in order to situate this article and our future research agenda. Following the literature review we present a discussion of key methodological considerations in order to determine the most appropriate and practical framework for collecting and analyzing primary data to better understand the potential impacts of festivals and events on families' QOL. The final section of the article concludes and reflects upon our review of literature and research questions, which we hope will set an agenda for future research in this area and on the development of a framework to test QOL within events.

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Power relations and the production of new knowledge within a Queensland Music Festival community cultural development project

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Positive power: events as temporary sites of power which “empower” marginalised groups

Positive power: events as temporary sites of power which “empower” marginalised groups

Cultural development and local government: analytical frames, insights and observations

Conceptualizing the Impact of Festival and Event Attendance Upon Family Quality of Life (QOL)

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