Festival Cultures Mapping New Fields in the Arts and Social Sciences

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Naturalization of the Alternatives in 1970s Britain through a 2020 XR Lens.- Chapter 3: The Case for A Free Festival (1969—74): Hippy Culture and Pop Festivals.- Chapter 4: Come, look and hear how the past has been and the future will be!” Festival culture and Neo-Nationalism in Hungary.- Chapter 5: Burning Man in Europe: Burns, Culture and Transformation.- Chapter 6: Artistic Engagement and Engineering Cultural Innovation at Festivals.- Chapter 7: Festivals: Monument Making, Mythologies and Memory.- Chapter 8: Sherpagate: Tourists and Cultural Drama at Burning Man.- Chapter 9: Festival co-creation and transformation: The Case of Tribal Gathering in Panama.- Chapter 10: The renewal of festive traditions in Mallorca: ludic empowerment and cultural transgressions. 

Maria Nita is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on religion and environmentalism, with particular interest in artistic practices for sustainability, festivals, and the climate movement. 

Jeremy H. Kidwell is a Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics at the University of Birmingham, UK. Kidwell is an interdisciplinary scholar, with a background in the humanities, particularly literature and music.