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Tracing memories and meanings of festival landscapes during the COVID-19 pandemic

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posted on 2023-05-21, 09:36 authored by Amelie FullerAmelie Fuller, Elaine StratfordElaine Stratford, Pauline MarshPauline Marsh
COVID-19 has deeply affected mass gatherings and travel and, in the process, has transformed festivals, festival landscapes, and people's sense of place in relation to such events. In this article we argue that it is important to better understand how people's memories of festival landscapes are affected by these larger shifts. We worked from the premise that information-rich cases could provide some initial insights in this respect. To that end, we interviewed seven individuals who are regular and longstanding in their engagement with festivals in one place, lutruwita/Tasmania, the island state of Australia. Key findings suggest that pandemic experiences mediate the range of meanings participants give to festival landscapes and their interpretations of such landscapes can be described as attachments and detachments, encounters, and reorientations. We conclude by proposing that participants' efforts to draw on memories, reflect on emotional geographies, and recast autobiographies help them adjust to crises, rethink their ways of moving to and from festival sites, and reframe their sense of place in relation to significant cultural events. Such insights have application beyond both the island state and the participants involved.

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Publication title

Emotion, Space and Society

Volume

44

Pagination

100903

ISSN

1755-4586

Department/School

School of Health Sciences

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Place of publication

Netherlands

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Copyright 2022 Elsevier Ltd.

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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