Leveraging physical and digital liminoidal spaces: The case of #EATCambridge festival

Mike Duignan

Abstract

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 indepth
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.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2018 - University of Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Aug 2018 → 31 Aug 2018 http://conference.rgs.org/AC2018/1bee7adc-8339-4779-bfad-06c5c8889498

Conference

Conference	RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2018
Abbreviated title	RGS-IBG
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cardiff
Period	28/08/18 → 31/08/18
Internet address	http://conference.rgs.org/AC2018/1bee7adc-8339-4779-bfad-06c5c8889498

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Leveraging
Food festivals
Neoliberalism
Clone town
Resistance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Business,Management and Accounting

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