CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.38 on Thursday, August 1. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.
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Festivalization & Festival Reclamation:
Mapping the Communicative Ecology of Festivalscapes and Tourism in Islands
Abstract:
This seminar presentation explores the communicative ecology mapping approach to island festivals and related forms of public culture as performance events which construct and negotiate meaning for the island community that hosts them and their visitors. It takes Waiheke as a case study. The third most populated island in Aotearoa New Zealand, it is situated in the Hauraki Gulf, a short ferry sail from Auckland. The island’s vineyards and art studios, pleasant micro-climate and many beaches attract weekend visitors throughout the year. Waiheke is also known for its long established festivalscape, an important and integral part of the island’s community life, its identity and economy and a significant contributor to the tourism product of the Auckland City. In recent years there has been an increase in cultural tourism events organized by the Auckland Tourism Events & Economic Development, which resulted in some events taken over from their local island focus to a regional, national and international cultural festival tourism market, including the Sculptures in the Gulf art event and the Jazz Art and Music Festival that attract thousands of visitors. In this presentation, the case study is explored through the concepts of Islands Communicative Ecology (ICE) – as a mapping of festivalscapes approach - “strange island”, “festivalization”, and “festival reclamation.”
Keywords: island communicative ecologies, island festivals, festival tourism, festivalization, festival reclamation
Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
Date/Time: Thursday 1 August 2024 | 18:30-20:00 (JST)
Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
Language: English
Capacity: 50 persons
Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
Speaker: Dr. Evangelia Papoutsaki
Bio:
Evangelia Papoutsaki, PhD Cardiff, is the SICRI Co-Convenor (Small Island Cultures Research Initiative). She is the executive editor of ePress at Unitec Auckland, New Zealand; Japan Foundation Research Fellow (2025) and former International Research Fellow at the Center for Pacific Islands Research at Kagoshima University. Her research interests are on island studies and communication for social change. She has extensive experience in the Asia Pacific region, including her previous position as Head of Communication Arts Department at DWU in Papua New Guinea and UNESCO Chair Freedom of Expression PNG, involvement in major research projects and editorial roles with island studies journals. She has published three edited volumes on Pacific and PNG communication issues and a forthcoming on Island Cultures and Festivals: A Creative Ecosystem (UWI Press). www.epapoutsaki.com
Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu
Registration:
Please register at the URL below.
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MgeQ70OnQ664AtitzqX8ZQ
Contact:
Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
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