| RAPOŠOVÁ, Ivana. ‘We can’t just put any belly-dancer into the program’: Cultural Activism as Boundary Work. In Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: The EU and Its Neighbours in the Wake of Immigration, Populism, and Authoritarian Politics. Conference organised by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto. 2018. |
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@proceedings{1407926,
author = {Rapošová, Ivana},
booktitle = {Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: The EU and Its Neighbours in the Wake of Immigration, Populism, and Authoritarian Politics. Conference organised by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto.},
language = {eng},
title = {‘We can’t just put any belly-dancer into the program’: Cultural Activism as Boundary Work.},
year = {2018}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 1407926
AU - Rapošová, Ivana
PY - 2018
TI - ‘We can’t just put any belly-dancer into the program’: Cultural Activism as Boundary Work.
N2 - Festivals are an increasingly more popular form of contemporary cultural activism. Countering prejudice through arts, using culture as a tool of communication, and creating an opportunity for marginalised groups to participate in public life, they represent a specific and novel means of civic activism. In this paper, I introduce a case study of the multicultural festival [fjúžn], aiming to enhance the public visibility of ‘new minorities’ and bring attention to the ethnic and cultural diversity in the Central-European city of Bratislava, Slovakia. Building on a festival ethnography and drawing on the perspective of boundary work (Jaworsky 2016), I show how the festival organisers work towards crossing and blurring symbolic boundaries in society. I offer a close interpretive reading of their attempts at capturing public places and cultivating a diverse language-scape, while showing how they simultaneously maintain, solidify, or even inscribe new boundaries. I conclude by raising critical points about the potential of activist cultural festivals to shift symbolic boundaries in the long run and serve as tools of social inclusion.
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RAPOŠOVÁ, Ivana. ‘We can’t just put any belly-dancer into the program’: Cultural Activism as Boundary Work. In \textit{Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: The EU and Its Neighbours in the Wake of Immigration, Populism, and Authoritarian Politics. Conference organised by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto.}. 2018.
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