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Festival community networks and transformative place-making (2018)
Journal Article
Jarman, D. (2018). Festival community networks and transformative place-making. Journal of Place Management and Development, https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-06-2017-0062

Purpose
Festivals are often explicitly connected to the destinations in which they take place, explored here as contributing to broader processes of place-making and engagement with local communities. Place is defined at a local scale, primarily as... Read More about Festival community networks and transformative place-making.

Social network analysis and the hunt for homophily: diversity and equality within festival communities (2017)
Journal Article
Jarman, D. (2017). Social network analysis and the hunt for homophily: diversity and equality within festival communities. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2018.1414987

Diversity and equality at a Scottish volunteer run arts festival are explored in this paper, through survey based social network analysis and follow-up interviews. Together they provide an overview of the festival’s network structure, and rich eviden... Read More about Social network analysis and the hunt for homophily: diversity and equality within festival communities.

The Strength of Festival Ties: Social Network Analysis and the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival (2016)
Book Chapter
Jarman, D. (2016). The Strength of Festival Ties: Social Network Analysis and the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival. In L. PLatt, & I. R. Lamond (Eds.), Critical Event Studies (277-308). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52386-0_14

The development of event studies as a field of research and education has misunderstood and misrepresented the social networks that underpin the industry. Such relationships are too often characterised in terms of stakeholders, which prioritises inst... Read More about The Strength of Festival Ties: Social Network Analysis and the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival.