Eshuis, Jasper, Pel, Bonno and Coca-Stefaniak, J. Andres ORCID: 0000-0001-5711-519X (2019) From ephemeral events to multiple legacies: an international comparison of festival demarcations and management approaches. Event Management, 24 (5). pp. 579-596. ISSN 1525-9951 (Print), 1943-4308 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3727/152599519X15506259856192)

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Abstract

Festivals have come to play an important role in tourism, and managing their legacy has become an important challenge for governments and the events industry. Festivals typically take place over limited periods of time, but they also bring longer lasting legacies for the economy, local communities and the environment. Festival legacies are characterized by interpretive flexibility; they are interpreted differently by various actors. This complicates attempts to adapt the management of festivals in such a way that aspired legacies are realised and unwanted (negative) legacies minimised. This paper elicits the recursive relationship between the ways in which event legacies are socially constructed, and how events are managed. Building on constructivist approaches to governance and management, and drawing on the empirical variety of six cultural festivals in different parts of Europe, this contribution shows how event legacy can be unpacked along actors’ diverse cognitive, social, temporal and spatial demarcations, and how these understandings relate to particular repertoires of management and governance. Highlighting how event legacies are pursued through combinations of control-oriented project management and more broadly scoped process management approaches, the study concludes with strategic reflections on the possibilities for elevating ephemeral events into vehicles for social change.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This journal article was published as a result of a 1.3 million GBP EU-funded project (ZEN project) involving field research with event and festival professionals across 6 European countries.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	event management; legacy; social construction; project management; process management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business Faculty of Business > Department of Marketing, Events & Tourism Faculty of Business > Tourism Research Centre
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2020 11:16
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/22778

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