Local City Festivals in Contemporary Moscow: Social Functions, Actors, and Organizational Structures

Student: Yarochkina Evgeniya

Educational Programme: Sociology of Public and Business Sphere (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This research is devoted to the study of the specifics of city festivals in modern Moscow. Various transformations of the city, changes in its cultural life and the formation of new leisure practices, naturally generate interest in identifying the features of the production process and the subsequent implementation of urban activities. Exemplified by the City Day, in the context of current process of "carnivalization" of urban space explores the features of the phenomenon of "festival", identifies the mission, assigned to the festival by its organizers and direct participants and also determines the specificity of the process of framing the meanings of the city festival on the level of production and subsequent consumption.

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