The Revival of the Past

Privatizing Cultural Practices in the Festival Era

Bibliographic Data

ID16964458
AuthorsHery Prasetyo (0000-0001-5341-4547, Universitas Jember, corresponding author), Dien Vidia Rosa (0000-0001-9663-9850, Universitas Jember), Raudlatul Jannah (0000-0001-5955-8365, Universitas Jember), Baiq Lily Handayani (Universitas Jember)
Year2021
Volume5
Issue1
Pages194-207
Publication date2021-11-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOpen Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2451-3474 • E-ISSN: 2451-3474
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/culture-2020-0125
OpenAlexW3216742081
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

The issue of indigenous community revivalism is crucial related to identity problems and cultural practices in sustainable development. Capital accumulation through cultural commercialization becomes a means to create a cultural creative sector based on tourism. The case of Osing communities in Banyuwangi, East Java, explained and highlighted the cultural practices of indigenous identity to a political-economic agenda. The research used a discursive analysis method with the findings of several issues. First, there were discrepancies between the indigenous and village institutions over the vision of village development. Second, the emergent forms of elite domination in an indigenous village. Third, the economic profit which is introduced by the market system did not align with the constructed narratives of indigenous people as generous and selfless. Fourth, the revival of cultural tourism is followed by an improvement in the infrastructure as a development indicator. And fifth, the government did not effectively represent the will of the indigenous community. Those emerged the contradiction between maintaining and innovating the tradition as a challenge in cultural tourism projects. The conditions were examined as a politics of culture which is formulated by the state. Hence, cultural practices of indigenous community turned into festivals; notwithstanding, indigenous sustainability is still uncertain

Commercialization · Cultural capital · Cultural heritage · Cultural identity · Cultural Sustainability · Cultural tourism · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Elite · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Tourism · Tourism geography · Asian Studies and History · Community-based Tourism Development and Sustainability · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law

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