Breaking boundaries : varieties of liminality / edited by Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horváth, Ágnes, 1957- editor.

Thomassen, Bjørn (Associate professor), editor.

Wydra, Harald, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liminality.

Rites and ceremonies.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

vi, 255 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction : liminality and the search for boundaries / Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen, Agnes Horvath

Liminality and experience : structuring transitory situations and

Transformative events / Arpad Szakolczai

Uses and meanings of liminality / Bjørn Thomassen

Inbetweenness and ambivalence / Bernhard Giesen

The genealogy of political alchemy : the technological invention of identity change / Agnes Horvath

Critical processes and political fluidity : a theoretical appraisal / Michel Dobry

Liminality and the frontier myth in the building of the American empire / Stephen Mennell

On the margins of the public and the private : Louis XIV at Versailles / Peter Burke

Liminality, the execution of Louis XVI and the rise of terror during the French Revolution / Camil Roman

In search of antistructure : the meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt's ongoing social drama / Mark Allen Peterson

Liminality and democracy / Harald Wydra

Liminality and postcommunism : the twenty-first century as the subject of history / Richard Sakwa

The challenge of liminality for international relations theory / Maria

Malksoo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781782387664

1782387668

OCLC:

896862053