Cities have always been hubs for celebration and festivity, bringing people together to escape temporarily from the mundane nature of everyday routines. Festivals have often been bridges between people and places, linking personal geography with collective experiences and therefore increasingly of interest to cultural geographers. However, festivals also have social, economic and political aspects that are constructed by societal influences of the time and place. This article presents some of the key debates ongoing in academic literature across disciplines to demonstrate the contested role that cultural festivals play in urban settings and suggests that urban geography is critical to developing these debates. It is simply no longer possible to say that festivity is a simple rupture in the mundanity of everyday life of urban citizens; rather, contemporary cultural festivals now often exhibit complex and uneasy tensions between the socio‐economic strategies of commercialized neoliberal cities and the cultural needs of diverse communities to gather and celebrate. By reviewing the development of festivals as part of the urban cultural economy utilising a geographic lens, this article sets out how cultural festivals are now more often employed by cities for marketing, tourism and other socio‐economic benefits. We demonstrate that cultural festivals and cities have an ongoing relationship, which is now mainly commercialized and politicized, and this has diverse impacts on communities, urban spaces and cultural identities.

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文化节和城市

城市一直是庆祝和喜庆活动的枢纽，使人们聚在一起暂时摆脱日常琐事的本质。节日通常是人与地方之间的桥梁，将个人地理与集体经验联系在一起，因此越来越引起文化地理学家的兴趣。但是，节日还具有社会，经济和政治方面，这些方面是由时间和地点的社会影响而构建的。本文介绍了跨学科的学术文献中正在进行的一些关键辩论，以证明文化节在城市环境中扮演的有争议的角色，并建议城市地理对于发展这些辩论至关重要。简直无法再说节日是城市居民日常生活中的一次简单破裂。而是 现在的当代文化节常常在新自由主义商业化城市的社会经济战略与不同社区收集和庆祝的文化需求之间表现出复杂而令人不安的紧张关系。通过使用地理视角回顾节日作为城市文化经济的一部分的发展，本文阐述了现在文化节如何被城市更多地用于营销，旅游和其他社会经济利益。我们证明，文化节和城市之间存在着持续的关系，现在主要是商业化和政治化，这对社区，城市空间和文化身份有着不同的影响。