Reimagining Community Festivals and Events: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This book celebrates and builds on Alan Clarke (1956–2021) and Allan Jepson’s 2015 book Exploring Community Festivals and Events. It showcases how far the study of community festivals and events has come in the intervening years, and in so doing it is a response to recent calls for researchers to take a more critical approach to event studies.

This is an interdisciplinary book that draws together empirical research across a wide range of community event types, sizes and within diverse commun...