On taking a leap of faith: Art, imagination, and liminal experiences.

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-263
Author(s):  
Paul Stenner ◽  
Tania Zittoun
Keyword(s):  
Liminal Experiences

A different kind of animal: liminal experiences of social work doctoral students

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 632-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Adorno ◽  
Courtney Cronley ◽  
Kenneth Scott Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Liminal Experiences

Guiding and enabling liminal experiences between business and arts organizations operating in a sponsorship relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annmarie Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Liminal Experiences ◽  
Shed Light

Through the lens of liminality, this article considers the identity work engaged in by managers working at the boundary of the organization. Liminality has been used to shed light on the ambiguous positions of temporary employees, consultants and project teams. As such, the concept has become synonymous with temporary, transient or precarious work settings. However, in this article I consider the efforts that managers make to set up and co-create the support structure they require to enter into and leave liminal experiences. I draw on a social anthropology to reconsider the movements between these ‘in’ and ‘out’ phases, and introduce two kinds of enabling roles: guide and ally. Through the use of a longitudinal case study research design the article contributes to the delineation between transitory and perpetual liminality, to include the notion of temporary incorporation. In distinguishing temporary incorporation from perpetual liminality, we can shift attention towards the possibilities of incremental learning in limen, where the subject and the context remain subject to change.

scholarly journals Australians Abroad: Narrative Paths and Divagations

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana De Nooy
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Multidisciplinary Analysis ◽  
Beaten Track ◽  
Narrative Patterns ◽  
Liminal Experiences

Although commonly characterized as an immigrant nation, Australia has been shaped just as importantly by the overseas journeys of its people, and the liminal experiences thus provided have not only been self-defining and defining of the other, but at times nation-defining. This special issue proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of Australian travellers and expatriates past and present: the reasons for and destinations of their travel, its impact on their identity, the roles they play, their writings and reflections, their linguistic and intercultural competence. Clusters of travellers to particular destinations give rise to narrative patterns which solidify into templates, the narrative equivalent of the beaten track. The essays that follow highlight both discursive grooves and off-piste accounts that challenge the patterns. In both cases, the emphasis in the essays is on the travellers’ active engagement in the experience and on their negotiation of existing discourses. For even those who follow the trail invest it with personal meanings.

Von Grenzlandliteratur zur Poetik der Grenze. Deutsch-polnische Transiträume und die kosmopolitische Imagination

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Karolina May-Chu
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Border Narratives ◽  
Liminal Experiences

Abstract This contribution considers the changes in German-Polish border narratives since 1989, and it argues for a flexible transnational approach to studying borderlands literature. In particular, the article discusses ›border poetics‹ as an idiom of the cosmopolitan imagination: it is a broadly applicable narrative and cultural practice that connects locally and historically specific border experiences with universally understood liminal experiences (e.g., life and death) or with epistemic and ontological boundaries. Using examples from German and Polish literature, the article explains that border poetics both emerges from and expands upon an understanding of the border as a contact zone.

scholarly journals Kreowanie doświadczeń liminalnych w szkole z wykorzystaniem metody dramy edukacyjnej

1970 ◽  
pp. 155-176
Author(s):  
Sylwia Jaskulska
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Function ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Educational Drama ◽  
Victor Turner ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Liminal Experiences

The aim of the paper is to consider the possibility of creating liminal experiences at school with the method of educational drama and the pedagogical potential of such activities. Treated as the medium phase of rite, I define liminality in line with Arnold van Genepp and Victor Turner. By claiming that for many reasons school is a liminal space and showing that the fact that this function is neglected at the cost of the transmission function is a problem, I present drama as a possible antidote.

scholarly journals Das alles ist Teil einer Reise zu sich selbst“ — Grenzerfahrungen als identitätsstiftendes Moment in zeitgenössischen Autobiographien von Bergsteiger*innen

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 377-388
Author(s):  
Sven Ismer ◽  
Nina Peter
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Hill Climbing ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Liminal Experiences

"IT'S ALL PART OF THE JOURNEY TO YOURSELF": LIMINAL EXPERIENCES AS IDENTITY-CREATIG MOMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY CLIMBERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIESExperiencing physical and mental boundaries has always been part of mountaineering. However, over the last 150 years we have witnessed a process in which, in climbers’ accounts, mountaineering and climbing become more and more important as liminal experiences. While in the so-called “golden age” of mountaineering 1850–1865 the authors focused on the first ascents of well-known summits and during the “heroic mountaineering” stage 1930s they described primarily traverses of increasingly difficult routes, what comes to the fore in contemporary autobiographical works of professional climbers is the representation of subjective and individual liminal experiences. In recent autobiographies climbing gains importance as an individual quest for experiences and is presented as a form of self-fulfilment: liminal experiences of climbers become moments shaping their identity. The process is reflected in the style of climbing, which has evolved from collective expeditions to radical solo climbs. Speed or free solo climbs are an example of such an individualistic approach, in which grappling with oneself gets at least as much attention as grappling with the mountain. The authors of the article explore, from the perspective of literary studies and sociology, the representation of liminal experiences as identity-shaping moments in contemporary autobiographical works by Lynn Hill Climbing Free, 2002, Catherine Destivelle Ascensions, 2003, Alex Honnold Alone on the Wall, 2015 and Andy Kirkpatrick Psychovertical, 2008.]]>

Understanding waiting and wellbeing through liminal experiences of Syrian refugees

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
May Mzayek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Forced Displacement ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Migration Experiences ◽  
Liminal Experiences

Using the anthropological concept of liminality, this paper describes an ethnographic study examining the wellbeing of Syrian refugees as they recount narratives of forced displacement and resettlement. The author observed 37 Syrian participants who had been relocated to Austin, Texas, United States, and interviewed 15 Syrian participants about their migration experiences. Through observation, interviews, and field notes, the author examines the refugees’ ideas of wellbeing during periods of peace, war and displacement, and resettlement. Throughout the displacement journey, Syrian refugees implemented resilience tactics to escape instances of waiting in order to reach their desired destination—resettlement.

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