Brandy Quinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 337444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandy Quinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandy |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinn |
| SIGNATURE | QUINN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technological University Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0807-8465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Understanding Urban Cultural Festivals as Social Infrastructure
This paper is concerned with the role that urban cultural festivals play in enhancing the quality and vitality of social life. It acknowledges that their reputation has become tarnished in recent years and that festivals now frequently feature in debates because they are charged with inciting tensions, exclusions and contestations. However, of note here is that cities tend to narrowly conceive of festivals as temporarily bounded moments of commod…
Can community festivals make urban places more hospitable
Cultivating places and spaces to encourage sociality and foster sociocultural inclusion is a very pertinent societal challenge. Community festivals are often marshalled in the interest of making cities more hospitable for the increasing numbers of migrants, refugees, remote workers and tourists internationally on the move. This study investigates if and how community festivals are constructing hospitality through their practices. The findings are…
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies." Leisure Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings
Festivals have been conceptualised as serious leisure activities as well as arenas for cultural capital acquisition and embodiment. However, there is still theoretical confusion surrounding the process of cultural embodiment, especially in leisure practices. This article suggests that the serious leisure perspective, in combination with cultural capital ideas, offers a means of deepening understanding of how cultural capital can be embodied in fe…
Tourisme événementiel, politiques publiques et développement socioculturel à Dublin
Dans un monde hyper globalisé et concurrentiel, les stratégies urbaines mettent souvent en avant les festivals et les événements en tant qu’activités susceptibles d’attirer des touristes et des investisseurs, étendre la saison touristique et développer l’économie. Le terme « tourisme événementiel » est aujourd’hui bien établi dans le lexique touristique, même s’il n’est souvent employé que dans un sens relativement restreint qui ne révèle qu’une …
Turismo de eventos, políticas públicas y desarrollo sociocultural en Dublín
En un mundo muy globalizado y competitivo, las estrategias urbanas a menudo señalan los festivales y eventos como actividades capaces de atraer turistas e inversores, extender la temporada turística e impulsar la economía. El turismo de eventos como término se encuentra ahora bien asentado en el léxico del turismo, sin embargo, generalmente se emplea de una manera bastante limitada, ofreciendo una visión parcial de un fenómeno que es complejo. Pa…
Event tourism, public policy and socio-cultural development in Dublin
In a highly globalised, competitive world, urban strategies often highlight festivals and events as activities which can attract tourists and investors, extend the tourism season and boost the economy. Event tourism as a term is now well established in the tourism lexicon, however, it is usually employed in quite a limited way that offers only partial insights into a complex phenomenon. To redress this deficit, this paper examines the case of Dub…
Festivals and the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events
This book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion. The ‘festivalisation’ of culture, politics and space in cities is often regarded as problematic, but this book examines the positive and negative ways that festivals affect cities by examining festive spaces as contested spaces. The book focuses on Western European cities, a particularly interesting cont…
Festivals, public space and cultural inclusion: Public policy insights
This paper investigates if and how cities conceive of festivals staged in outdoor public space as a means of achieving cultural inclusion policy objectives. The inclusion of culture in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) creates an imperative for cities to scrutinize their approaches to making their cities inclusive. Festivals offer potential in this regard and this study examines the ways that Barcelona, Dublin, Glasgow, Gothenburg and L…
Understanding the cultural potential of rural festivals: A conceptual framework of cultural capital development
Festival heterotopias: Spatial and temporal transformations in two small-scale settlements
Heritage sites and schoolchildren: Insights from the Battle of the Boyne
Children are very much under-represented in heritage tourism studies, particularly in terms of their own perspectives. This exploratory study begins to redress this imbalance by investigating how 34 primary school-going children experience and make sense of the Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre, an Irish heritage site. Among the research questions posed are: How does the group make sense of heritage? Where do they get their ideas about heritage …
Mapping uncertainty from multi-criteria analysis of land development suitability, the case of Howth, Dublin
This paper presents a method for determining and mapping suitable locations for development using Multi Criteria Analysis and the Analytical Hierarchy Process and considering uncertainties in the process. The method is applied to the case study of Howth (Dublin), where development suitability is assessed against specific protection and conservation areas as well as ground water vulnerability. Uncertainty is incorporated using a Monte Carlo simula…
Other-Oriented Purpose: The Potential Roles of Beliefs About the World and Other People
This article reports on a qualitative study of youth interviews representing different types of other-oriented purpose. In order to better understand youth contribution, differences in the directness of responses to community needs were examined in youth who demonstrated other-oriented purpose. Implicit theories about the world and other people were investigated as potential determinants of these different types. First, results supported a relati…
Key Concepts in Event Management
A comprehensive and illuminating account of event and festival management. Written with academic rigour yet highly accessible, Bernadette Quinn is an astute judge of what students want and need to study in this field
Adolescent Purpose Development: Exploring Empathy, Discovering Roles, Shifting Priorities, and Creating Pathways
The development of youth purpose was explored in a qualitative, cross‐sequential study. Interviews about life goals and reasons for pursuing them were conducted with 146 adolescents from four age groups (6th grade, 9th grade, 12th grade, and college sophomores or juniors). Participants completed the interview twice in 2 years. Each cohort focused on different aspects of purpose: middle school youth desired to be empathic; high school youth focuse…
Enhancing American Identity and Citizenship in Schools
By examining history-social science learning standards in the state of California, an argument is made that schools should be concerned about more than narrowly defined academic achievement goals. Instead, a review of those standards suggests that schools are responsible for helping to foster democratic citizenship that grows out of a strong American identity. An argument is made that character and civic education offer rich resources for address…
The School as a Democratic Community
Schools may be able to play a particular role in instilling a strong American identity in young people. They can do this by actively practicing democratic community within the school. This practice of democratic community is key to the development of an individual identity that prioritizes the interdependent relationship between individual and community. James Youniss and Jacques Benninga (along with myself) are introduced as authors who will dra…
Care-givers, leisure and meanings of home: A case study of low income women in Dublin
This article seeks to contribute to the literature on the meanings of domestic spaces by furthering understandings of the sorts of roles that space plays in shaping women's leisure experiences. The study researched a group of 15 women who live in disadvantaged areas of Dublin city and care for dependent children. Focus groups and structured conversations revealed the poverty of the spatial capital available to these women, depicting local environ…
The benefits of holidaying for children experiencing social exclusion: Recent Irish evidence
There is a general assumption in contemporary society that holidaying is beneficial in many ways. Yet, even in affluent societies, access to holidaying opportunities continues to be constrained by a variety of factors relating to inter alia income, gender, health and race. This is problematic because it means that sizeable minorities within advanced societies are being denied the benefits that researchers have attributed to the practice of holida…
The European Capital Culture Initiative And Cultural Legacy: An Analysis of the Cultural Sector in the Aftermath of Cork 2005
Performing Tourism Venetian Residents in Focus
Arts Festivals and the City
There has been a remarkable rise in the number of urban arts festivals in recent decades. The outcomes of cities' engagement with arts festivals, however, remain little understood, particularly in social and cultural terms. This article reviews existing literature on urban festivals and argues that city authorities tend to disregard the social value of festivals and to construe them simply as vehicles of economic generation or as 'quick fix' solu…
Changing festival places: Insights from Galway
This paper focuses on cultural reproduction in arts festival settings. It begins by conceptualizing festival settings as places whose characters derive from a combination of both internally derived traits and a diverse series of interactions with other places. Drawing on case study research conducted in an arts festival setting in Galway in the Republic of Ireland, the discussion identifies how elements indigenous to the place connect and engage …
Shaping leisure/tourism places - the role of holiday home owners: A case study of Courtown, Co. Wexford, Ireland
This article investigates the role played by holiday home owners in shaping leisure/tourism places. Having reviewed recent trends in the holiday home literature, the paper argues that the literature has failed to adequately consider how this group of actors can play a role in developing leisure/tourism places. The research is case study based and reports the findings of a study undertaken in Courtown, a small seaside resort in the Republic of Ire…
Arts Festivals and the City
There has been a remarkable rise in the number of urban arts festivals in recent decades. The outcomes of cities' engagement with arts festivals, however, remain little understood, particularly in social and cultural terms. This article reviews existing literature on urban festivals and argues that city authorities tend to disregard the social value of festivals and to construe them simply as vehicles of economic generation or as 'quick fix' solu…
Symbols, practices and myth-making: Cultural perspectives on the Wexford Festival Opera
In recent decades geographers have paid increasing attention to festivals. They have construed festivals as important practices through which people connect with their place and as authored landscapes designed to promote particular sets of values and attach specific meanings to place. Tourism influences the processes and dynamics ongoing in festival settings and this paper seeks to unravel some of the complex ways in which it influences the repro…
Changing festival places: Insights from Galway
This paper focuses on cultural reproduction in arts festival settings. It begins by conceptualizing festival settings as places whose characters derive from a combination of both internally derived traits and a diverse series of interactions with other places. Drawing on case study research conducted in an arts festival setting in Galway in the Republic of Ireland, the discussion identifies how elements indigenous to the place connect and engage …
Adolescent Purpose Development: Exploring Empathy, Discovering Roles, Shifting Priorities, and Creating Pathways
The development of youth purpose was explored in a qualitative, cross‐sequential study. Interviews about life goals and reasons for pursuing them were conducted with 146 adolescents from four age groups (6th grade, 9th grade, 12th grade, and college sophomores or juniors). Participants completed the interview twice in 2 years. Each cohort focused on different aspects of purpose: middle school youth desired to be empathic; high school youth focuse…
Care-givers, leisure and meanings of home: A case study of low income women in Dublin
This article seeks to contribute to the literature on the meanings of domestic spaces by furthering understandings of the sorts of roles that space plays in shaping women's leisure experiences. The study researched a group of 15 women who live in disadvantaged areas of Dublin city and care for dependent children. Focus groups and structured conversations revealed the poverty of the spatial capital available to these women, depicting local environ…
Performing Tourism Venetian Residents in Focus
The benefits of holidaying for children experiencing social exclusion: Recent Irish evidence
There is a general assumption in contemporary society that holidaying is beneficial in many ways. Yet, even in affluent societies, access to holidaying opportunities continues to be constrained by a variety of factors relating to inter alia income, gender, health and race. This is problematic because it means that sizeable minorities within advanced societies are being denied the benefits that researchers have attributed to the practice of holida…
Understanding the cultural potential of rural festivals: A conceptual framework of cultural capital development
Shaping leisure/tourism places - the role of holiday home owners: A case study of Courtown, Co. Wexford, Ireland
This article investigates the role played by holiday home owners in shaping leisure/tourism places. Having reviewed recent trends in the holiday home literature, the paper argues that the literature has failed to adequately consider how this group of actors can play a role in developing leisure/tourism places. The research is case study based and reports the findings of a study undertaken in Courtown, a small seaside resort in the Republic of Ire…
Festival heterotopias: Spatial and temporal transformations in two small-scale settlements
Heritage sites and schoolchildren: Insights from the Battle of the Boyne
Children are very much under-represented in heritage tourism studies, particularly in terms of their own perspectives. This exploratory study begins to redress this imbalance by investigating how 34 primary school-going children experience and make sense of the Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre, an Irish heritage site. Among the research questions posed are: How does the group make sense of heritage? Where do they get their ideas about heritage …
Other-Oriented Purpose: The Potential Roles of Beliefs About the World and Other People
This article reports on a qualitative study of youth interviews representing different types of other-oriented purpose. In order to better understand youth contribution, differences in the directness of responses to community needs were examined in youth who demonstrated other-oriented purpose. Implicit theories about the world and other people were investigated as potential determinants of these different types. First, results supported a relati…
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings
Festivals have been conceptualised as serious leisure activities as well as arenas for cultural capital acquisition and embodiment. However, there is still theoretical confusion surrounding the process of cultural embodiment, especially in leisure practices. This article suggests that the serious leisure perspective, in combination with cultural capital ideas, offers a means of deepening understanding of how cultural capital can be embodied in fe…
Shaping leisure/tourism places - the role of holiday home owners: A case study of Courtown, Co. Wexford, Ireland
This article investigates the role played by holiday home owners in shaping leisure/tourism places. Having reviewed recent trends in the holiday home literature, the paper argues that the literature has failed to adequately consider how this group of actors can play a role in developing leisure/tourism places. The research is case study based and reports the findings of a study undertaken in Courtown, a small seaside resort in the Republic of Ire…
Symbols, practices and myth-making: Cultural perspectives on the Wexford Festival Opera
In recent decades geographers have paid increasing attention to festivals. They have construed festivals as important practices through which people connect with their place and as authored landscapes designed to promote particular sets of values and attach specific meanings to place. Tourism influences the processes and dynamics ongoing in festival settings and this paper seeks to unravel some of the complex ways in which it influences the repro…
Arts Festivals and the City
There has been a remarkable rise in the number of urban arts festivals in recent decades. The outcomes of cities' engagement with arts festivals, however, remain little understood, particularly in social and cultural terms. This article reviews existing literature on urban festivals and argues that city authorities tend to disregard the social value of festivals and to construe them simply as vehicles of economic generation or as 'quick fix' solu…
Changing festival places: Insights from Galway
This paper focuses on cultural reproduction in arts festival settings. It begins by conceptualizing festival settings as places whose characters derive from a combination of both internally derived traits and a diverse series of interactions with other places. Drawing on case study research conducted in an arts festival setting in Galway in the Republic of Ireland, the discussion identifies how elements indigenous to the place connect and engage …
Performing Tourism Venetian Residents in Focus
The European Capital Culture Initiative And Cultural Legacy: An Analysis of the Cultural Sector in the Aftermath of Cork 2005
Care-givers, leisure and meanings of home: A case study of low income women in Dublin
This article seeks to contribute to the literature on the meanings of domestic spaces by furthering understandings of the sorts of roles that space plays in shaping women's leisure experiences. The study researched a group of 15 women who live in disadvantaged areas of Dublin city and care for dependent children. Focus groups and structured conversations revealed the poverty of the spatial capital available to these women, depicting local environ…
The benefits of holidaying for children experiencing social exclusion: Recent Irish evidence
There is a general assumption in contemporary society that holidaying is beneficial in many ways. Yet, even in affluent societies, access to holidaying opportunities continues to be constrained by a variety of factors relating to inter alia income, gender, health and race. This is problematic because it means that sizeable minorities within advanced societies are being denied the benefits that researchers have attributed to the practice of holida…
Enhancing American Identity and Citizenship in Schools
By examining history-social science learning standards in the state of California, an argument is made that schools should be concerned about more than narrowly defined academic achievement goals. Instead, a review of those standards suggests that schools are responsible for helping to foster democratic citizenship that grows out of a strong American identity. An argument is made that character and civic education offer rich resources for address…
The School as a Democratic Community
Schools may be able to play a particular role in instilling a strong American identity in young people. They can do this by actively practicing democratic community within the school. This practice of democratic community is key to the development of an individual identity that prioritizes the interdependent relationship between individual and community. James Youniss and Jacques Benninga (along with myself) are introduced as authors who will dra…
Key Concepts in Event Management
A comprehensive and illuminating account of event and festival management. Written with academic rigour yet highly accessible, Bernadette Quinn is an astute judge of what students want and need to study in this field
Adolescent Purpose Development: Exploring Empathy, Discovering Roles, Shifting Priorities, and Creating Pathways
The development of youth purpose was explored in a qualitative, cross‐sequential study. Interviews about life goals and reasons for pursuing them were conducted with 146 adolescents from four age groups (6th grade, 9th grade, 12th grade, and college sophomores or juniors). Participants completed the interview twice in 2 years. Each cohort focused on different aspects of purpose: middle school youth desired to be empathic; high school youth focuse…
Other-Oriented Purpose: The Potential Roles of Beliefs About the World and Other People
This article reports on a qualitative study of youth interviews representing different types of other-oriented purpose. In order to better understand youth contribution, differences in the directness of responses to community needs were examined in youth who demonstrated other-oriented purpose. Implicit theories about the world and other people were investigated as potential determinants of these different types. First, results supported a relati…
Mapping uncertainty from multi-criteria analysis of land development suitability, the case of Howth, Dublin
This paper presents a method for determining and mapping suitable locations for development using Multi Criteria Analysis and the Analytical Hierarchy Process and considering uncertainties in the process. The method is applied to the case study of Howth (Dublin), where development suitability is assessed against specific protection and conservation areas as well as ground water vulnerability. Uncertainty is incorporated using a Monte Carlo simula…
Heritage sites and schoolchildren: Insights from the Battle of the Boyne
Children are very much under-represented in heritage tourism studies, particularly in terms of their own perspectives. This exploratory study begins to redress this imbalance by investigating how 34 primary school-going children experience and make sense of the Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre, an Irish heritage site. Among the research questions posed are: How does the group make sense of heritage? Where do they get their ideas about heritage …
Festival heterotopias: Spatial and temporal transformations in two small-scale settlements
Festivals, public space and cultural inclusion: Public policy insights
This paper investigates if and how cities conceive of festivals staged in outdoor public space as a means of achieving cultural inclusion policy objectives. The inclusion of culture in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) creates an imperative for cities to scrutinize their approaches to making their cities inclusive. Festivals offer potential in this regard and this study examines the ways that Barcelona, Dublin, Glasgow, Gothenburg and L…
Understanding the cultural potential of rural festivals: A conceptual framework of cultural capital development
Tourisme événementiel, politiques publiques et développement socioculturel à Dublin
Dans un monde hyper globalisé et concurrentiel, les stratégies urbaines mettent souvent en avant les festivals et les événements en tant qu’activités susceptibles d’attirer des touristes et des investisseurs, étendre la saison touristique et développer l’économie. Le terme « tourisme événementiel » est aujourd’hui bien établi dans le lexique touristique, même s’il n’est souvent employé que dans un sens relativement restreint qui ne révèle qu’une …
Turismo de eventos, políticas públicas y desarrollo sociocultural en Dublín
En un mundo muy globalizado y competitivo, las estrategias urbanas a menudo señalan los festivales y eventos como actividades capaces de atraer turistas e inversores, extender la temporada turística e impulsar la economía. El turismo de eventos como término se encuentra ahora bien asentado en el léxico del turismo, sin embargo, generalmente se emplea de una manera bastante limitada, ofreciendo una visión parcial de un fenómeno que es complejo. Pa…
Event tourism, public policy and socio-cultural development in Dublin
In a highly globalised, competitive world, urban strategies often highlight festivals and events as activities which can attract tourists and investors, extend the tourism season and boost the economy. Event tourism as a term is now well established in the tourism lexicon, however, it is usually employed in quite a limited way that offers only partial insights into a complex phenomenon. To redress this deficit, this paper examines the case of Dub…
Festivals and the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events
This book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion. The ‘festivalisation’ of culture, politics and space in cities is often regarded as problematic, but this book examines the positive and negative ways that festivals affect cities by examining festive spaces as contested spaces. The book focuses on Western European cities, a particularly interesting cont…
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies
Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies." Leisure Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings
Festivals have been conceptualised as serious leisure activities as well as arenas for cultural capital acquisition and embodiment. However, there is still theoretical confusion surrounding the process of cultural embodiment, especially in leisure practices. This article suggests that the serious leisure perspective, in combination with cultural capital ideas, offers a means of deepening understanding of how cultural capital can be embodied in fe…
Can community festivals make urban places more hospitable
Cultivating places and spaces to encourage sociality and foster sociocultural inclusion is a very pertinent societal challenge. Community festivals are often marshalled in the interest of making cities more hospitable for the increasing numbers of migrants, refugees, remote workers and tourists internationally on the move. This study investigates if and how community festivals are constructing hospitality through their practices. The findings are…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (15 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (13 works) · Social science (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)