Abstract
This chapter asks whether it is possible to harness the powers of ‘the popular’ and media culture in the service of humanitarianism. There is a need to critically balance an analysis of the potentially progressive and/or problematic aspects of a popularised humanitarian event. Exploring the energies that are at play in the popular ‘carnival’ of the Danish Roskilde Festival, this chapter examines how the carnivalesque can function both as a form of corporate branding and as a means to destabilise the status quo identified with a negatively branded segment of the population. The chapter also analyses the expansion of the festival into cyberspace, and the offline–online interconnectivity of the festival’s humanitarian events.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture |
| Editors | Michael Lawrence, Rachel Tavernor |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Place of Publication | Manchester |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Publication date | 4 Jan 2019 |
| Pages | 246-267 |
| Chapter | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-5261-1729-8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781526117304 |
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| Publication status | Published - 4 Jan 2019 |
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Feltarbejde Roskilde Festival
Christiansen, L. B. (Project participant), Olwig, M. F. (Project participant) & Mubanda Rasmussen, L. (Project participant)
28/06/2015 → 05/07/2015
Project: Research
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OCE: The organised cultural encounter: rethinking the conceptual and contextual framework of interculturality through the study of practice
Galal, L. P. (Project manager), Hvenegård-Lassen, K. (Project participant), Christiansen, L. B. (Project participant), Riis, H. B. (Project participant) & Hansen, R. P. (Project participant)
01/09/2013 → 31/12/2017
Project: Research
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