Breaking Boundaries
Varieties of Liminality
Harald Wydra editor Bjørn Thomassen editor Agnes Horvath editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Published:30th Oct '17
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Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.
"In well integrated chapters, the [volume] proves the relevance of the concept across disciplines, particularly for the study of moments of instability and possibility, as well as for understanding the transformative potential of participation... In addition to helping one understand in-between experiences overall, [it] invites the reader to rethink the complicated relation between individual agency, social order and cultural transmission... a remarkable contribution to sociology, anthropology and critical theory." - European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
ISBN: 9781785337499
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264 pages