Social Identities: Special Issue on Carnival

2013

Social impacts are increasingly used as one of the main justifications for staging and funding events, and yet there is very little empirical evidence on the extent to which these impacts are realised by different kinds of events or in different settings. This timely volume fills this gap by being the first to explore the different social aspects of events, looking in particular at the role of events in developing social capital, social cohesion and participation in local communities. Based on cutting edge empirical research, it evaluatesthe contribution of both cultural and sports events to social capital, social cohesion, community spirit and local pride in range of different types of events and settings, with case studies drawn from Europe, Australia and South Africa. It therefore furthers knowledge about the social benefits and impacts of events and significantly contributes to the development of Events as a discipline.

Australian Folklore, 2006

Garbutt, RG 2006, 'The locals: a critical survey of the idea in recent Australian scholarly writing', Australian Folklore, vol. 21, pp. 172-192. The abstract and pdf of the published article reproduced in ePublications@SCU with the permission of Australian Folklore

'Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Red and Black', eds. Dave Berry, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta and Alex Prichard, 2012

David Bowie doesn’t matter very much. That seems like a bizarre remark, particularly in a special issue dedicated to the opposite view. But in Latin America, he is of minimal importance by contrast with other prominent English-language pop-music exports that journal readers will know, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths or The Cure. How can this be true of an artist who is routinely labelled a world icon? Our paper identifies several reasons: nation-building and rock music’s first steps in Latin America, progressive cultural politics, conservative gender norms and a continent dominated by dictatorships when Bowie was becoming a putative ‘world icon’.

Social Identities, 2010

This essay examines the ideas of carnival and the carnivalesque in relation to a modern social formation to which I refer as the “Kingdom of Coal.” Conjured incessantly from disjunct social perspectives on fossil fuel extraction and energy production, the Kingdom of Coal offers a grounded example of what Charles Taylor terms a “modern social imaginary.” Carnivalesque maskings and unmaskings dramatize a struggle for publicly relevant subjectivity in the United States. Social bodies constructed through such carnivalesque tropes as the grotesque body, the slaying of the king, and (ecologically) gay materiality articulate profoundly different stakes across class lines. Emulaing the public space needed for critical reflection on such imaginaries, this essay brings into dialogue voices kept rigidly apart by environmental decision-makers and the national media. Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts of monologic and dialogic modes of communication, and the related concepts of classical and grotesque bodies and ecologies, drawn from his theory of the carnivalesque, are key.

2009

This poster aims to describe and analyze the intermediality in Latin American’s photobooks: Viagem pelo Fantástico (1972) by Kossoy, Amazônia (1978) by Andujar and Love, and Retromundo (1986) by Gasparini.

As announced, the Academic Committee has assembled all individual papers into sessions. Complete sessions remain as they were proposed. Those sessions containing more than 4 papers will be reexamined at a further notice to take into account absentee presenters.