{"product_id":"festivals-and-the-cultural-public-sphere-9780415714969","title":"Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFestivals and the Cultural Public Sphere\u003c\/em\u003e provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as examples of a particular aesthetic cosmopolitanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book approaches contemporary festivals as relatively autonomous social texts that need interpretation and contextualisation. This perspective, combined with a diversified set of theoretical approaches and research methods, and guided by a common thematic rationale, places the volume squarely within some of the most debated topics in current social sciences. Furthermore, the multifaceted nature of festivals allows for unusual but useful connections to be made across several fields of social inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis timely edited collection brings together contributions from key figures across the social sciences, and proves to be valuable reading for undergraduate students, postgraduates, and professionals working within the areas of contemporary social theory, cultural theory, and visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerard Delanty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415714969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Gerard Delanty \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Sociology and Social \u0026amp; Political Thought at the University of Sussex. He is the author of twelve books and editor of seven, including \u003cem\u003eHandbook of Contemporary European Social Theory\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2006). His most recent publication is \u003cem\u003eThe Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Social Theory Renewal of Critical Social Theory\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Liana Giorgi \u003c\/strong\u003eis Vice-Director of The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, and the coordinator of the EURO-FESTIVAL project on European arts festivals. She is co-author and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy in the European Union: Towards the Emergence of a European Public Sphere\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2006).\u003cstrong\u003eDr \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonica Sassatelli\u003c\/strong\u003e is Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College. She has published in the sociology of culture, Europe as well as classical and contemporary social theory. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eBecoming Europeans: Cultural Identity and Cultural Policies\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67107854418035,"sku":"9780415714969","price":117.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_c4c78ef5-88d5-4b6b-aadf-736fa8a97759.jpg?v=1793798041","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/festivals-and-the-cultural-public-sphere-9780415714969","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}