Cultural events

The aim of this research project is to explore the territorial dimension of the cultural, economic, tourist, political and social dynamics generated by festivals, in connection with CEPEL's previous work on the social and territorial ecology of festivals and ongoing work on festival demography and creation.

More broadly, we'll be looking at the phenomena of the festivalization of culture and the evenementization of territorial cultural public action. Indeed, festivals can be seen as an original response by the worlds of culture (associative and political players, cultural institutions, etc.) to the phenomena of globalization and fragmentation of cultural identities, as well as to injunctions to return to the territory. In France, these injunctions have been largely reinforced by the NotRe law of August 7, 2015 - which makes culture a competence shared by the different levels of collectivities - but also by the LCAP law (Liberte de la creation, a! architecture et au patrimoine) of July 7, 2016 - which encourages these collectivities to cooperate with each other author of cultural issues.

Project leaders: Aurélien Djakouane, Emmanuel Négrier, Stéphane Coursière, Julien Audemard. Budget: €39,915