Major events are more global than local in intent? Discuss with reference to tourism development strategies, local engagement initiatives and the role arts events have in shaping cultural identity.
3000 words，You are using the literature to set up arguments/ to highlight gaps/
Global in local： •How do we come to terms with phenomena such as Thai boxing by Moroccan girls in Amsterdam, Asian rap in London, Irish bagels, Chinese tacos and Mardi Gras Indians in the United States, or Mexican schoolgirls dressed in Greek Togas dancing in the style of Isadora Duncan? How do we interpret peter Brook directing the Mahabharata, or Adrienne Manouchkine staging a Shakespeare play in Japanese kabuki style for a Paris audience…..’ (Pieterse, 1995)
What might you do here：
•Chose event-
•Is it aimed at locals or tourists
•How does it programme to attract international audiences?
•Argue whether the event aims to feature international shows/actors/musicians
•Doe it feature or aim for international audiences
•Doe sit market itself as international in intent?
•How does it work with loca
Ideas flow and people travel ：•Universal access to broadcasting produces a temporally and discursively unified public out of a geographically dispersed populace (Morley, 2004; Thompson, 1995).
•Theorists are divided on the influences of globalisation on local/national identity and cultures
Tourism and events to together?
•Import the tourist? Or export the village and the festival? These processes are reciprocal’ Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1998)
•Normally – Intro, 3 big chapters, conclusion but small case study chapters fine as well. So can be 6 chapters even 7
•Intro – c1000- 1500 words
•Key question
•Key text that drives the questions
•Some brief intro to the context of the study – i.e. where you are going to apply your question and to what?
•Then a recap and lead into the other chapters
•You are using the literature to set up arguments/ to highlight gaps/
•Keep ‘signposting’ along the way to ensure it remains relevant.
•Take a critical reading of the texts
•Try to use original sources
•Use the literature to build arguments but do ask ‘why am I including this?’
Methods – toolkit but also like another literature review：
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