Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 858-879 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Tourism Geographies |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 28 Dec 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
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Keywords
- Limionoid spaces
- Social media
- Creative resistance
- Food festivals
- Cambridge
- Event leveraging
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
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Leveraging physical and digital liminoidal spaces : The case of #EAT Cambridge festival. / Duignan, Mike; Everett, Sally; Walsh, Lewis; Cade, Nicola.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Leveraging physical and digital liminoidal spaces
T2 - The case of #EAT Cambridge festival
AU - Duignan, Mike
AU - Everett, Sally
AU - Walsh, Lewis
AU - Cade, Nicola
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper conceptualises the way physical and digital spaces associated with festivals are being harnessed to create new spaces of consumption. It focuses on the ways local food businesses leverage opportunities in the tourist-historic city of Cambridge. Data from a survey of 28 food producers (in 2014) followed by 35 in-depth interviews at the EAT Cambridge food festival (in 2015) are used to explain how local producers overcome the challenges of physical peripherality and why they use social media to help support them challenges restrictive political and economic structures. We present a new conceptual framework which suggests the development of place through food festivals in heritage cities can be understood by pulling together the concepts of ‘event leveraging’, ‘liminoid spaces’ (physical and digital) and modes of ‘creative resistance’ which helps the survival of small producers against inner city gentrification and economically enforced peripherality.
AB - This paper conceptualises the way physical and digital spaces associated with festivals are being harnessed to create new spaces of consumption. It focuses on the ways local food businesses leverage opportunities in the tourist-historic city of Cambridge. Data from a survey of 28 food producers (in 2014) followed by 35 in-depth interviews at the EAT Cambridge food festival (in 2015) are used to explain how local producers overcome the challenges of physical peripherality and why they use social media to help support them challenges restrictive political and economic structures. We present a new conceptual framework which suggests the development of place through food festivals in heritage cities can be understood by pulling together the concepts of ‘event leveraging’, ‘liminoid spaces’ (physical and digital) and modes of ‘creative resistance’ which helps the survival of small producers against inner city gentrification and economically enforced peripherality.
KW - Limionoid spaces
KW - Social media
KW - Creative resistance
KW - Food festivals
KW - Cambridge
KW - Event leveraging
U2 - 10.1080/14616688.2017.1417472
DO - 10.1080/14616688.2017.1417472
M3 - Article
VL - 20
SP - 858
EP - 879
JO - Tourism Geographies
JF - Tourism Geographies
SN - 1461-6688
IS - 5
ER -