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CfP Special Issue of Emotion, Space & Society: Emotional Entanglements in Festival Spaces
The emotional intersections of people and places are emphatically heightened in festival settings. Festivals are defined here as temporary in duration, involving a series of events over multiple days, and are rooted in cultural practices. Festivals can be spaces where individual and collective meanings are re-negotiated and reinforced as a result of meaningful experiences (Finkel et al., 2018). It can be argued that festivals need to be felt to be experienced fully, as sites of emotional experience and expression are based on personal geographies (Davidson & Milligan, 2004). This involves social aspects (who is involved in the experience), cultural aspects (what is involved in the experience), historical aspects (when the experience takes place), and also geographic aspects (where the experience is taking place).
This special issue explores these kinds of interwoven social and cultural relations by focusing on emotional entanglements in festival spaces. Emotions emerging from and in festival spaces associate with wider concepts such as belonging, identity, memory, voice. Ultimately, festivals can expose “the intimately entangled relations between experiences, emotions, and meanings” (Fenton et al., 2012, 42). The three key stakeholders in festivals: organisers, audiences, and artists have experiences that are distinct to their roles, depending on the degree of their emotional engagement. As such, the emotional encounter between these three is an important site for further exploration. Both personal and relational emotional geographies of festivals are worthy of investigation.
We welcome inter-disciplinary, multicultural, and geographically diverse scholarship on the concept of emotional entanglements in festival spaces. We are looking for proposed articles that explore a range of issues from a variety of perspectives to contribute to the theoretical and empirical developments of the study of emotion, space, and society.
Submissions may focus on themes including, but not limited to:
• The emotional labour of curators and programmers
• Emotional encounters between festivals stakeholders
• Personal and relational emotional geographies of festivals
• Positive and negative emotional triggers in festival spaces
• Emotions of in/exclusions in festival spaces
• Attachments of place and emotions navigated through festivals
• Nostalgia and festivals
• Festival infrastructure’s influence on emotions
• Designing festivals for emotional reactions/expressions
• Festival producer’s/artist’s emotions
• Memory, emotions, and festivals
• Historical accounts of festivals and emotional responses
• Embodiment of emotions in festival landscapes
• Non-hegemonic perspectives in emotional festival geography
• Transformations and transgressions in festival spaces and festival art forms
Important dates:
Submission of a 250-word abstract to Prof. Rebecca Finkel [log in to unmask] and Dr Stefanie Van de Peer [log in to unmask] by 12 January 2024.
Invitations to submit a full paper will be sent out before the end of January 2024.
Full paper submission: 1 July 2024.
NB: Invitation to submit a full paper is not a confirmation of publication.
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