Session proposal for the RGS-IBG Annual Meeting: Tuesday 3rd July -
Thursday 5th
July 2012, University of Edinburgh
Lech Suwala (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Dominic Power (Uppsala University)
Bastian Lange (Humboldt-University Berlin)
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We invite you to present a paper in this session. Please submit an
abstract of up
to 300 words to Lech Suwala ([log in to unmask]), Dominic Power
([log in to unmask]) or Bastian Lange
([log in to unmask]
de) by 27th January 2012.
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Field-configuring Events Evolution, Structuring or Dissolution of
Cultural and
Creative Industries through temporary spatial proximity
Field configuring events (FCEs), sometimes also referred to as field
maintaining
events (FMEs) (Dobusch et al. 2010), is a relatively new approach in
considering
dynamic aspects of field emergence, structuring and declining mechanisms,
which
evolved out of research on institutional, organizational, and professional
fields (Davis /
Marquis 2005). FCE, broadly defined, represent temporary social
organizations such as
tradeshows, professional gatherings, technology contests, and business
ceremonies.
These FCE can be understood as gatherings in which people from diverse
backgrounds
and with different purposes assemble on a one-time, sporadic, irregular or
periodically
basis in order to reveal new products, develop industry standards, create
social networks,
acknowledge accomplishments, share and interpret information, or execute
business
(Lampel / Meyer 2008).
At the same time, they embody a critical and understudied mechanism
shaping the
emergence and developmental trajectories of these industries, markets,
professions, and
technologies. Research on FCEs is still at an early stage. Most pioneering
work has been
done by scholars from management and organization studies (Farjoun 2002,
Meyer et al.
2005 etc.).
Interestingly, this approach can open up new possibilities in economic
geography when
considering the so far understudied dynamics of creative fields (esp.
Scott 1999,
2006, 2010) or to put in other words FCEs in cultural and creative
industries. The
existing research, on the one hand, confirms this view that events such as
art fairs and
biennales, film and music festivals are important within creative fields
(Entwistle /
Rocamora 2006, Anand / Jones 2008, Delacour / Leca 2011). On the other
hand, this
literature almost entirely neglects the spatial dimension. Only very few
authors made
contributions from a specific spatial perspective (Lange 2011, Sedini
2011).
Conventional FCE are fairs and festivals. They share four common
characteristics
according to Moeran / Pedersen (2011): First of all, they are spatially
bounded, that means
they are usually surrounded by a particular location whether in an
indoor exhibition
hall, park, or around a town or city, or a combination there of. Secondly,
the are
temporarily bounded in terms of duration and regularity. Thirdy, they are
socially bounded
bringing together people who are closely involved in the production or
consumption of
the exhibited products and services. Forthly, they are functionally
unbounded meaning that
they serve multiple purposes.
Some of these issues have been intensively investigated upon in economic
geography
with respect to trade fairs as temporary clusters in manufacturing
industries by Bathelt
and surrounding scholars (f.e. Maskell et al 2004, Bathelt / Zakszewski
2007, Bathelt/
Schuldt 2010, Schuldt / Bathelt 2011).
Nevertheless, there is almost no research with few exceptions (f.e.
Power /Jansson
2008) in economic geography on the emegence, structuring or dissolution
of such
temporal gatherings in cultural and creative industries (f.e. design
fairs, music or
movie festivals etc.). Moreover, many FCEs in cultural and creative
industries do not
neccessary share the above mentioned characterists as FCEs can take place
in virtual
contexts or without specific time and space frames.
Against this background and in order to introduce this approach in
economic geography,
we encourge to participate in this special session. Studies to be
presented should include
one or more of the following aspects:
a) Theorizing FCE or FME from a spatial perspective by approaches related
to the
emergence, structuring, institutionalization, decline or
deinstitutionalization of those
fields.
b) Proposing new methodologies for investigating FCE through dynamic
concepts of
collecting data (f.e. temporary proximity measures).
c) Introducing studies with empirical evidence on the spatial importance
of constituting
FCE that contribute to the formation of new emerging fields, maintaining
mature fields
or dissolutions of fields in cultural and creative industries.
d) Developing implications for local and regional governments how to
attract FCE
in order to agglomerate international participants and spur the local
economy.
We invite you to present a paper in this session. Please submit an
abstract of up
to 300 words to Lech Suwala ([log in to unmask]), Dominic Power
([log in to unmask]) or Bastian Lange
([log in to unmask]
de) by 27th January 2012.
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Selection of Literature:
Anand, N. and Jones, B. C. 2008. ŒTournament rituals, category dynamics
and field
configuration: the case of the Booker Prize¹. Journal of Management
Studies, 45, 1036
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Bathelt, H./ Schuldt, N. 2010. International Trade Fairs and Global Buzz,
Part I:
Ecology of Global Buzz. In: European Planning Studies (Vol. 18) pp.
1957-1974.
Delacour, H. and B. Leca 2011 ŒA Salon¹s life: field configuration, power,
and
contestation in a creative field,¹ pp. 36-58 in B. Moeran and J.
Strandgaard Pedersen
(eds.) Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and
Competitive
Events. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dobusch, L./Schüssler, E. S./Wessel, L. (2010) Backstage: Organizing
Field-Configuring
Events in the German Music Industry. Paper präsentiert beim 26. EGOS
Colloquium,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 30.Juni -2. Juli.
Entwistle, J. and A. Rocamora 2006 ŒThe field of fashion materialized: a
study of London
Fashion Week.¹ Sociology 40 (4): 735-751.
Lampel, J. and A. D. Meyer 2008 ŒField-configuring events as structuring
mechanisms: how conferences, ceremonies, and trade shows constitute new
technologies, industries, and markets.¹ Journal of Management Studies 45
(6): 1025-1035.
Lange, B. (2011): Field configuring Events Spatial politics and
professional scene
formation in the design segment of Berlin. In: Koch, G. (eds.): Arbeit &
Alltag, Campus
Verlag (in print).
Maskell, P./ Bathelt, H./ Malmberg, A. 2004: Temporary Clusters and
Knowledge
Creation: The Effects of International Trade Fairs, Conventions and Other
Professional
Gatherings. SPACES 2004-04. Fachbereich Geographie, Philipps-Universität
Marburg:
Marburg. Web Site: http://www.spaces-online.com.
Meyer, A. D., Gaba, V. and Colwell, K. (2005). ŒOrganizing far from
equilibrium: nonlinear
change in organizational fields¹. Organization Science, 16, 45673.
Moeran, B. and J. S. Pedersen 2011 ŒIntroduction¹ to their edited
Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and
Competitive Events.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Power, D. and J. Jansson (2008) ŒCyclical clusters in global circuits:
overlapping spaces in
furniture trade fairs.¹ Economic Geography 84 (4): 423-448.
Scott, A. J. (2006): Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Industrial
Development:
Geography and the Creative Field Revisited, Small Business Economics, 26,
S.1-24
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Subject: Session at RGS-IGB Edinburgh 2012
>Dear friends and colleagues,
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>first of all, I wish you all the best in 2012.
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>See attached a cfp, that might be of interest for you.
>Please circulateŠ
>All the best
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