245 research outputs found
Festivals & the city: the contested geographies of urban events edited by Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, and Bernadette Quinn, London, University of Westminster Press, 2022, 308 pp., 60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-914386-46-6 (e-copy)
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The Dolomitici: when the power of food drives the local economy
No full textThe case describes the experience of an informal local network made up of a group of three hoteliers from Alta Badia - the ‘DoloMitici’ - who decide to start a structured partnership aimed at promoting the tourist destination where they operate. The driving force behind everything is fine dining. The three entrepreneurs are in fact all owners of top-level hotels, each of which is home, among the other services on offer, to a restaurant with at least one Michelin star. The case describes the birth of the project and the various events organised by the group to promote the tourist destination of Alta Badia and to communicate the excellence of Alto Adige cuisine
The impact of festivals on the image of a cultural industry: The case of the new Italian dance platform
No full textOver the last years, there has been a growing attention on the impacts generated by festivals both on the host territories and the internal dynamics of the celebrated cultural industry. However, extant literature has overlooked the impact that festivals produce on the image of the industry. This study thus aims at filling this gap by exploring how a festival improves the image that the professionals attending the event have of their cultural industry. More particularly, the paper is based on a case study on the New Italian Dance Platform, the Italian biennial contemporary dance festival. Findings suggest that a festival provides industry professionals with the opportunity to conduct two groups of activities: crafting a shared space and building a shared vision. The two groups of activities trigger both social and cognitive mechanisms through which the attending professionals construe and share a positive image of their cultural industry
INTER-FIRMS NETWORK FORMATION AND EVOLUTION IN HIGH QUALITY CUISINE: THE CASE OF THE FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA: VIA DEI SAPORI CONSORTIUM
No full textThe case describes the experience of 'Friuli Venezia Giulia - Via dei Sapori' (Friuli Venezia Giulia – the Route of Tastes) a consortium of restaurateurs coming from the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, who started to collaborate with the common aim of enhancing the food culture of their region and increasing the value of local food productions through high quality cuisine. The consortium counts 21 members and over forty producers and winemakers affiliated. The core of the consortium activities are the culinary events where the offer is based on the interaction of the members of the consortium with the producers and wine makers. The case narrates an experience of spontaneous and horizontal aggregation between businesses of different kinds and natures, illustrating, through the voices of the business associates and the partners of the consortium, the benefits of being part of a local network and the main problems, with the objective of stimulating classroom discussion concerning the evolution of social networks, the organizational tools and social mechanisms that allow the network to operate and those that inhibit it, the strengths of the network and its weaknesses, the possible evolutions and the new strategies to undertake in the near future
The DoloMitici. When the power of food drives the local economy
No full textThe case describes the experience of an informal local network made up of a group of three hoteliers from Alta Badia – the ‘DoloMitici’ – who decide to start a structured partnership aimed at promoting the tourist destination where they operate. The driving force behind everything is fine dining. The three entrepreneurs are in fact all owners of top-level hotels, each of which is home, among the other services on offer, to a restaurant with at least one Michelin star. The case describes the birth of the project and the various events organised by the group to promote the tourist destination of Alta Badia and to communicate the excellence of Alto Adige cuisine
L’impatto culturale degli spazi collaborativi
No full textObiettivo di questo capitolo è esplorare come può essere declinato l’impatto culturale degli spazi collaborativi. Questa dimensione dell’impatto sociale è molto rilevante, in quanto negli ultimi anni gli spazi collaborativi hanno assunto un ruolo sempre maggiore di veicolo di sviluppo culturale per il territorio in cui sono inseriti. In particolare, essi sono diventati luoghi abituali di lavoro per molti professionisti operanti nelle industrie culturali e alla ricerca di un ambiente di lavoro conveniente economicamente, stimolante e dinamico, dove poter cogliere opportunità di lavoro e sviluppare network professionali (Leone et al., 2020a; Merkel, 2019). Studi recenti hanno inoltre sottolineato come l’affiliazione a uno spazio collaborativo possa supportare i lavoratori culturali e creativi più precari, offrendo un ancoraggio che li supporti nel proprio percorso professionale in modo da superare le incertezze e le complessità che caratterizzano le carriere nel mondo della cultura (Montanari et al., 2021; Razzoli et al., 2020)
Role distribution in public-private partnerships: the case of heritage management in Italy
No full textIn this article we analyze how private partners can be actively involved in preservation-related activities without mining the overarching logic of unitary heritage preservation at the national level, so that public–private partnerships may become effective instruments of cultural policy. We use three Italian cases in which private actors are charged with activities typically under the domain of the public to demonstrate how tasks can be distributed among public and private stakeholders to cooperatively handle projects requiring a high level of coordination, intense competencies, sharing, and integration between partners of different natures. A clear definition of individual players’ responsibility, timing and resource allocation criteria, shared commitment, and bottom-up approaches are important elements in fostering success in the public–private partnerships
Jon Keune, Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India [Ludovica Tozzi], p. 391
No full text"Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India" by Jon Keune deals with an in-depth analysis of Marathi literature from 1854 to 1950, in order to find an answer to the question: "Can the idea that people are equal before God inspire them to treat each other as equals? Can theological egalitarianism lead to social equality?”. While trying to answer such a complex question, the author reveals the strengths and flaws of the so-called "most liberal Hindu religious movement"
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