Raphaela Stadler

An ethnographic exploration of knowledge practices within the Queensland Music Festival

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the utilisation and application of reflexive ethnography as an interpretative methodology for researching knowledge practices within festival organisations.Design/methodology/approach – The ethnographic approach incorporates two methods of data collection in the research design; participant observation and in‐depth interviews.Findings – The research identified that knowledge management practices and processes are often invisible to festival staff when they are embedded within a cohesive organisational culture. Ethnography enables the researcher to make explicit the tacit and normalised ways of working that contribute to the success (and failure) of festival organisations to manage knowledge. The immersion of the researcher in the ethnographic process provided a rich understanding of the relational dimension of knowledge management that would be difficult to elicit from in‐depth interviews alone.Research limitations/implications – New fields of study requir...

Power relations and the production of new knowledge within a Queensland Music Festival community cultural development project

Abstract Conflict during the creative development process of community cultural development projects is inevitable (Adam and Goldbard 2001), yet through the productive use of power (Foucault 1977, 1980, 1982) new knowledge can be created for the festival organization, the community, and individual participants. In this article I identify power/knowledge relations within the Queensland Music Festival community cultural development project Behind the Cane, a three-year project with the South Sea Islander community in Bowen, Queensland, Australia, through a narrative analysis of different stories that my participants told about the project. These stories emphasize strategic and disciplinary power during the creative development process of Behind the Cane, as well as the power of the story and the performance itself and what it meant to the local community and the festival organization. From these stories I explain how new knowledge was created within the community as well as the festival organization.

Critical moments of (un)doing doctoral supervision: : Collaborative writing as rhizomatic practice

This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Simone Fullagar, Adele Pavlidis, and Raphaela Stadler, ‘Critical moments of (un)doing doctoral supervision: collaborative writing as rhizomatic practice’, Knowledge Cultures, August 2015. The Version of Record is available online at doi: https://doi.org/10.22381/KC5420173. Published by Addleton Academic Publishers, New York.