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This essay will attempt to critically analyse the evolution of events and the implications of cultural commodification in regeneration strategies.
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... This essay will attempt to critically analyse the evolution of events and the implications of cultural commodification in regeneration strategies. In order to try and answer this, this essay will explain Bakhtin's theory of carnivalesque and the development and progression of festivals. It will also try and fully incorporate all of the issues concerning commodification and how cultures are used for strategies and what the implications are of that. Finally, the essay will cover some of the ways of resistance. It can be argued that events can be traced right back to the medieval times. Bakhtin, who was a Russian theorist, wrote about the carnivals in that time. Bakhtin (1973) outlines that there was a distinction between official festivals and that of carnivalesque. Official festivals are associated with order and are not about celebration. They were about reaffirming the hierarchy in society, especially since they were organised by political or
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