Social Production and Consumption of Space: A Lefebvrian Analysis of the Kumbh Mela

Kumbh Mela is the world’s largest pilgrimage gathering on the shores of the River Ganges. Drawing on Lefebvre’s (1991) trialectics of space framework, this paper interrogates the spatial dynamics of the Kumbh Mela through the spatial meanings espoused by local and international pilgrims. Accounting...

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Authors: Buzinde, Christine (Author) ; Manuel-Navarrete, David (Author) ; Kalavar, Jyotsna (Josi) (Author) ; Kohli, Neena (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dublin Institute of Technology 2022
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2022, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 178-188
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kumbha Melā / River / Sanctuary / Pilgrimage / Pilgrim / Environmental consciousness
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Ganges
B Pilgrimage
B trialectics of space
B sacred waterscapes
B Kumbh Mela
B India
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