Editing Festival (section)

== Politics ==
Scholarly literature notes that festivals functionally disseminate political values and meaning, such as ownership of place, which undergoes transformation in accordance with the festival.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /> Furthermore, a festival may act as an artefact which allows citizens to achieve "certain ideals", including those of identity and ideology.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jeong |first1=Sunny |last2=Santos |first2=Carla Almeida. |date=2004 |title=Cultural Politics and Contested Place Identity |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0160738304000210 |journal=Annals of Tourism Research |language=en |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=640–656 |doi=10.1016/j.annals.2004.01.004}}</ref> Festivals may be used to rehabilitate or elevate the image of a city; the [[ephemerality]] of festivals means that their impact is often incorporeal, of name, memory and perception.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> In deviating from routine, festivals may reinforce the convention, be it social, cultural or economic.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />