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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Event and Festival Management Année : 2023

Place-based community events and resistance to territorial stigmatisation

David Mcgillivray
Trudie Walters
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Séverin Guillard

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Place-based community events fulfill important functions, internally and externally. They provide opportunities for people from diverse communities and cultures to encounter each other, to participate in pleasurable activities in convivial settings and to develop mutual understanding. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the value of such events as a means of resisting or challenging the deleterious effects of territorial stigmatisation. The authors explore two place-based community events in areas that have been subject to territorial stigmatisation: Govanhill in Glasgow, Scotland, and South Dunedin, New Zealand. They draw on in-depth case study methods including observation and interviews with key local actors and employ inductive analysis to identify themes across the datasets. They demonstrate how neighbourhood events in both Glasgow and Dunedin actively seek to address some of the deleterious outcomes of territorial stigmatisation by emphasising strength and asset-based discourses about the areas they reflect and represent. In their planning and organisation, both events play an important mediating role in building and empowering community, fostering intercultural encounters with difference and strengthening mutuality within their defined places. They make use of public and semi-public spaces to attract diverse groups while also increasing the visibility of marginalised populations through larger showcase events.

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halshs-04278987 , version 1 (10-11-2023)

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David Mcgillivray, Trudie Walters, Séverin Guillard. Place-based community events and resistance to territorial stigmatisation. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 2023, ⟨10.1108/IJEFM-01-2023-0010⟩. ⟨halshs-04278987⟩

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