Beyond everyday life: the search for transformation in the liminarity of Boom Festival (Portugal)
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https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v26.73961Abstract
A new breed of festivals, self-styled as transformational, have been looming in the last decades. This article proposes a journey into that genre of festivals based on an ethnography in one of its most renowned events – the Boom Festival, in Portugal – alongside a cyber-ethnography in social media. The article debates the search for personal and collective transformation associated with processes of liminality prompted by the Boom Festival. The analysis seeks understanding how the temporary suspension of everyday life takes form when transformational festivals occur and to what extent those states of liminality induce transformational processes when subjects return to their day-to-day livelihoods.
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