Festival and Organization Studies
| Autor: | Maria Laura Toraldo, Gazi Islam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Focus (computing) Metaphor Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0506 political science Organization studies Aesthetics Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Sociology 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Organization Studies. 40:309-322 |
| ISSN: | 1741-3044 0170-8406 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0170840617727785 |
| Popis: | The present essay examines the festival as a form of organizing and as a metaphor for contemporary organizations. Drawing upon classical and contemporary perspectives on festival, we focus on social ambivalences and how these are enacted and mediated through festivals. Specifically, we argue that festivals mark a tension between linear and cyclical dimensions of social time. Next, we argue that formal institutional and communitarian principles are mediated through festival. Finally, we argue that festivals mark a tension between reflexivity and social critique on the one hand and mass spectacle on the other, and problematize the notion of bodily enjoyment as a form of social consciousness. We discuss the implications of these three ambivalences – in the notion of time, the notion of community and the notion of reflexivity – for contributing to contemporary organizational discussions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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