1st Edition

Gendered Violence at International Festivals An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Edited By Louise Platt, Rebecca Finkel Copyright 2020
180 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Gendered Violence at International Festivals is a groundbreaking collection that focusses on this highly important social issue for the first time. Including a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies on the issue, the book contests the widely held notion that festivals are temporal spaces free from structural sexism, inequalities or gender power dynamics. Rather, they are spaces where these... Read more

Chapter 1. Gendered violence at international festivals: An interdisciplinary perspective
Louise Platt & Rebecca Finkel

Chapter 2. Analysis of the response of the feminist movement and institutional feminism to gender violence in local festivals in northern Spain: The case of the Basque Country
María Silvestre, Raquel Royo, Estibaliz Linares

Chapter 3. Fiestas, public space, and rape culture: A study of the "Wolf Pack" case
Anna Morero Beltrán & Clara Camps Calvet

Chapter 4. Sexual violence in Nigerian MusiCultural Festivals: Narratives of the unheard victims
Richard A. Aborisade

Chapter 5. Between patriarchy and capitalism: The gendered violence of Intwasa International Arts Festival, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Khanyile Mlotshwa

Chapter 6. Gender, transgression, and sexual violence at Australian Music Festivals
Bianca Fileborn, Phillip Wadds, Stephen Tomsen

Chapter 7. Conceptualising safety and crime at UK music festivals: A gendered analysis
Hannah Bows, Hannah King, Fiona Measham

Chapter 8. Gender-based violence amongst music festival employees
Cassandra Jones

Chapter 9. Structural disputes: An analysis of infrastructural inequalities in the case study of the Women of the World Festival in Hull (UK) City of Culture 2017
Barbara Grabher

Chapter 10. The Green Wave! Resistance in festivals as part of the women empowerment process in Argentina
Valeria Vegh Weis & Lucia Montenegro

Chapter 11. The polite cowboy or the wild, wild west: Strategic approaches to reducing gender-based rodeo violence through grassroots civic mobilisation
Mylynn Felt & Maria Bakardjieva

Biography

Louise Platt is Senior Lecturer in Festival and Events Management at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rebecca Finkel is Reader in Events Management at Queen Margaret University and Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy.