Breaking Boundaries : : Varieties of Liminality / / ed. by Agnes Horvath, Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Burke, Peter,; Dobry, Michel,; Giesen, Bernhard,; Horvath, Agnes,; Mennell, Stephen,; Mälksoo, Maria,; Peterson, Mark Allen,; Roman, Camil Francisc,; Sakwa, Richard,; Szakolczai, Arpad,; Thomassen, Bjørn,; Wydra, Harald,
• HerausgeberIn: Horvath, Agnes,; Thomassen, Bjørn,; Wydra, Harald,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Content -- Figures -- Introduction: Liminality and the Search for Boundaries -- Part I Framing Liminality -- Chapter 1 Liminality and Experience: Structuring Transitory Situations and Transformative Events -- Chapter 2 Thinking with Liminality: To the Boundaries of an Anthropological Concept -- Part II Liminality and the Social -- Chapter 3 Inbetweenness and Ambivalence -- Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Political Alchemy: The Technological Invention of Identity Change -- Chapter 5 Critical Processes and Political Fluidity: A Theoretical Appraisal -- Chapter 6 Liminality and the Frontier Myth in the Building of the American Empire -- Chapter 7 On the Margins of the Public and the Private: Louis XIV at Versailles -- Part III Liminality and the Political -- Chapter 8 Liminality, the Execution of Louis XVI, and the Rise of Terror during the French Revolution -- Chapter 9 In Search of Antistructure: The Meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt’s Ongoing Social Drama -- Chapter 10 Liminality and Democracy -- Chapter 11 Liminality and Postcommunism: The Twenty-First Century as the Subject of History -- Chapter 12 The Challenge of Liminality for International Relations Theory -- Contributors -- Index