Jepson, A S (2009) Investigating cultural relationships within the festival planning and construction process in a local community festival context. PhD thesis, University of Derby, UK.
Abstract
This thesis examines the efforts to identify appropriate cultural contexts for the use of the widely accepted perspective of the local community within a cultural festival. The thesis explores the term local community from the perspective of how it is embraced practically by the organisers of a local community cultural festival in a small city in the middle of England. The thesis achieves this firstly by examining how the local community are represented within the festival planning process with a view to their inclusion; and secondly by tracking the culturally motivated decisions organisers made within the planning process through to the effects or repercussions they had within the delivery of the festival event programme. This thesis therefore seeks to provide an outline with regard to the appropriateness of inclusive or exclusive culture and how the local community and the cultural diversity they possess are best included within the context of a local community cultural festival. It does this through the utilisation of a flexible multi method research methodology adapted to capture the rich cultural data within this local research context. Through triangulation of primary and secondary data sources the thesis establishes that inclusivity within cultural events is not achievable without an inclusive planning process, and contributes new insights into the mechanics of that process.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | England; culture |
| Index terms: | programme, construction process, triangulation, planning process, England, secondary data, research methodology |
| Subjects: | building construction, Geography, project controls, research design and methodology, data collection methods |
| Topics: | Site Management, Time Control, Research Practice, Geographical Context |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCEA |
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