 | Festivals, Affect and Identity: A Deleuzian Apprenticeship in Central Italian Communities Subjects: Festivals -- Italy Central; National characteristics Italian; Italians -- Ethnic identity; Ethnicity -- Italy Central; Ethnology -- Italy Central; Deleuze Gilles 1925–1995 -- Criticism and interpretation; Italy Central -- Social life and customs; Via an ethnographic study of the community festivals of Siena Province in central Italy, 'Festivals, Affect and Identity' investigates the affective and fluid aspects of reality to establish an integrated perspective on issues of continuity and rupture, tradition and modernity, and nature and culture. Offering an illustration of the explanatory power of continental philosophy, this text demonstrates the accessibility of highly abstract critical theory when examined in relation to specific events and their detailed analysis. Lita Crociani-Windland is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Fellow of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England, where she also gained her MSc and PhD. |
