Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality

by Agnes Horvath Horvath (Editor), Bjørn Thomassen (Editor), Harald Wydra (Editor)

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.

264 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2015

Reviews

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked the variety that this collection had to offer. When studying this kind of theory, some books shy away from the contemporary or the political, but many of the essays used concrete examples. The authors also did a fine job of extrapolating the theory of liminality, but also adding to the topic greatly.

[Salpi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great inspection of the topic paralleled with how it functions in modernity