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.
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.
Bjørn Thomassen is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, and is a founding editor of the journal International Political Anthropology. His recent publications include Liminality and the Modern: Living Through the In-Between (Ashgate 2014), and the edited collection Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City (Indiana University Press, 2014).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures Introduction: Liminality and the Search for Boundaries Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen, and Agnes Horvath PART I: FRAMING LIMINALITY Chapter 1. Liminality and Experience: Structuring transitory situations and transformative events Arpad Szakolczai Chapter 2. Thinking with Liminality: To the Boundaries of an Anthropological Concept Bjørn Thomassen PART II: LIMINALITY AND THE SOCIAL Chapter 3. Inbetweenness and Ambivalence Bernhard Giesen Chapter 4. The Genealogy of Political Alchemy: the technological invention of identity change Agnes Horvath Chapter 5. Critical Processes and Political Fluidity: a Theoretical Appraisal Michel Dobry Chapter 6. Liminality and the Frontier Myth in the Building of the American Empire Stephen Mennell Chapter 7. On the Margins of the Public and the Private: Louis XIV at Versailles Peter Burke PART III: LIMINALITY AND THE POLITICAL Chapter 8. Liminality, the execution of Louis XVI and the rise of terror during the French Revolution Camil Roman Chapter 9. In Search of Antistructure: The Meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt's Ongoing Social Drama Mark Allen Peterson Chapter 10. Liminality and Democracy Harald Wydra Chapter 11. Liminality and Postcommunism: The Twenty-First Century as the Subject of History Richard Sakwa Chapter 12. The Challenge of Liminality for International Relations Theory Maria Malksoo Notes on Contributors Index
List of Figures Introduction: Liminality and the Search for Boundaries Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen, and Agnes Horvath PART I: FRAMING LIMINALITY Chapter 1. Liminality and Experience: Structuring transitory situations and transformative events Arpad Szakolczai Chapter 2. Thinking with Liminality: To the Boundaries of an Anthropological Concept Bjørn Thomassen PART II: LIMINALITY AND THE SOCIAL Chapter 3. Inbetweenness and Ambivalence Bernhard Giesen Chapter 4. The Genealogy of Political Alchemy: the technological invention of identity change Agnes Horvath Chapter 5. Critical Processes and Political Fluidity: a Theoretical Appraisal Michel Dobry Chapter 6. Liminality and the Frontier Myth in the Building of the American Empire Stephen Mennell Chapter 7. On the Margins of the Public and the Private: Louis XIV at Versailles Peter Burke PART III: LIMINALITY AND THE POLITICAL Chapter 8. Liminality, the execution of Louis XVI and the rise of terror during the French Revolution Camil Roman Chapter 9. In Search of Antistructure: The Meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt's Ongoing Social Drama Mark Allen Peterson Chapter 10. Liminality and Democracy Harald Wydra Chapter 11. Liminality and Postcommunism: The Twenty-First Century as the Subject of History Richard Sakwa Chapter 12. The Challenge of Liminality for International Relations Theory Maria Malksoo Notes on Contributors Index
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