THE CITY AT HOLIDAY TIME
A TOKEN OF IDENTITY IN PLACE OF RESISTANCE?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36661/2448-1092.2011v8n13.12716Keywords:
City, Festive manifestation, Identity, ResistanceAbstract
Did the city become “Carnivalized” ? After a period when innovation was scarce, festive manifestations have multiplied since the 1980s. A sudden explosion, opposed to everyday life, the festival gathers, creates ephemeral meeting places in a society of mobility. An ambivalent event, it serves as an exutory, a contestation of the establishment, an economic promotion of a territory... A unifying force, it allows inhabitants to identify with a geography, and it mutates along with the transformations of time and space in the city (Nuits Blanches [Sleepless Nights], Chinese New Year in Paris...). In urban history, the festival is a symbol of resistance (Commune de Paris). The overlapping of identity and resistance is often at the root of contemporary festivals. They are a form of resistance of urbanity to the challenges of modernity. But does this “protesting” character stem from the festive phenomenon itself ?
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