Inhabiting Liminal Spaces

Author : Isabella Clough Marinaro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000540383

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Inhabiting Liminal Spaces by Isabella Clough Marinaro Pdf

This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how dynamics of rule-bending take shape in Rome today. Adopting a multiscalar and transdisciplinary approach, it unpacks how gaps and contradictions in institutional rulemaking and application force many residents into protracted liminal states marked by intense vulnerability. By merging a political economy lens with ethnographic research in informal housing, illegal moneylending, unauthorized street-vending and waste collection, the author shows that informalities are not marginal or anomalous conditions, but an integral element of the city’s governance logics. Multiple actors together construct the local cultural norms, conventions and moral economies through which rule-negotiation occurs. However, these practices are ultimately unable to reconfigure historically rooted power dynamics and hierarchies. In fact, they often aggravate weak urbanites’ difficulties in accessing rights and services. A study that challenges assumptions that informalities are predominantly features of developing economies or limited to specific groups and sectors, this volume’s critical approach and innovative methodology will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology interested in social theory, urban studies and liminality.

Author : Nicole Guenther Discenza
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487511548

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Inhabited Spaces by Nicole Guenther Discenza Pdf

We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles in a constant state of tension. In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space. Anglo-Saxon models of the universe featured a spherical earth at the centre of a spherical universe ordered by God. They sought to shape the universe into knowable places, from where the earth stood in the cosmos, to the kingdoms of different peoples, and to the intimacy of the hall. Discenza argues that Anglo-Saxon works both construct orderly place and illuminate the limits of human spatial control.

Author : Shahd Seethaler-Wari,Somayeh Chitchian,Maja Momic
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035623710

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Inhabiting Displacement by Shahd Seethaler-Wari,Somayeh Chitchian,Maja Momic Pdf

Author : Kristin J. Jacobson,Kristin Allukian,Rickie-Ann Legleitner,Leslie Allison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319738512

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Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature by Kristin J. Jacobson,Kristin Allukian,Rickie-Ann Legleitner,Leslie Allison Pdf

This book highlights the multiplicity of American women’s writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women’s writing contest as well as perpetuate exclusionary practices involving class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex, among other variables. The collection’s introduction, three unit introductions, fourteen individual essays, and afterward facilitate a process of encounters, engagements, and conversations within, between, among, and across the rich polyphony that constitutes the creative acts of American women writers. The contributors offer fresh perspectives on canonical writers as well as introduce readers to new authors. As a whole, the collection demonstrates American women’s writing is “threshold writing,” or writing that occupies a liminal, hybrid space that both delimits borders and offers enticing openings.

Author : Heather K. Olson Beal,Chrissy J. Cross,Lauren E. Burrow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003832683

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MotherScholaring During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Heather K. Olson Beal,Chrissy J. Cross,Lauren E. Burrow Pdf

This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies about the COVID-19 pandemic’s complex influence on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia or “MotherScholars”. It calls attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education's responses to it highlight the historical, societal, and cultural inequities between diverse groups of MotherScholars. The volume represents diverse ethnicities (e.g., Black, Pinay, Asian American), an assortment of disciplines (e.g., sociology, education, psychology, Asian American studies, etc.), and a variety of methodologies (e.g., collaborative autoethnography, photovoice, kuwentos, etc.) to share diverse narratives linked through an identity and pursuit of MotherScholarhood. It addresses the wide range of pressures and influences affecting mothers in academia and tackles the additional burdens and prejudices MotherScholars with marginalized cultural and religious identities face. Taken as a whole, the book presents important and complementary findings through different MotherScholar perspectives, which underscore the complexity of their experience and how it was impacted by a global pandemic. MotherScholaring During the COVID-19 Pandemic will be a key resource for researchers and practitioners of education studies, educational research, educational leadership and policy, educational administration, gender studies, and women’s studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education.

Author : Sarah Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781487504885

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Inhabiting the In-Between by Sarah Thomas Pdf

Although children have proliferated in Spain's cinema since its inception, nowhere are they privileged and complicated in quite the same way as in the films of the 1970s and early 1980s, a period of radical political and cultural change for the nation as it emerged from almost four decades of repressive dictatorship under the rule of General Francisco Franco. In Inhabiting the In-Between: Childhood and Cinema in Spain's Long Transition, Sarah Thomas analyses the cinematic child within this complex historical conjuncture of a nation looking back on decades of authoritarian rule and forward to an uncertain future. Examining films from several genres by four key directors of the Transition - Carlos Saura, Antonio Mercero, Víctor Erice, and Jaime de Armiñán - Thomas explores how the child is represented as both subject and object, and self and other, and consistently cast in a position between categories or binary poles. She demonstrates how the cinematic child that materializes in this period is a fundamentally shifting, oscillating, ambivalent figure that points toward the impossibility of fully comprehending the historical past and the figure of the other, while inviting an ethical engagement with each.

Author : Adam Komisarof,Zhu Hua
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317578819

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Crossing Boundaries and Weaving Intercultural Work, Life, and Scholarship in Globalizing Universities by Adam Komisarof,Zhu Hua Pdf

This book generates a fresh, complex view of the process of globalization by examining how work, scholarship, and life inform each other among intercultural scholars as they navigate their interpersonal relationships and cross boundaries physically and metaphorically. Divided into three parts, the book examines: (1) the socio-psychological process of crossing boundaries constructed around nations and work organizations; (2) the negotiation of multiple aspects of identities; and (3) the role of language in intercultural encounters, in particular, adjustment taking place at linguistic and interactional levels. The authors reflect upon and give meaning and structure to their own intercultural experiences through theoretical frameworks and concepts—many of which they themselves have proposed and developed in their own research. They also provide invaluable advice for transnational scholars and those who aspire to work and live abroad to improve organizational participation and mutual intercultural engagement when working in a globalizing workplace. Researchers and practitioners of applied linguistics, communication studies, and higher education in many regions of the world will find this book an insightful resource.

Author : Staci B. Martin,Deepra Dandekar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000479249

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Global South Scholars in the Western Academy by Staci B. Martin,Deepra Dandekar Pdf

By foregrounding the voices and experiences of scholars from the Global South who have migrated to institutions in the Global North, this volume theorizes the "third space" as a unique, rich, and generative position in the Western academy. Global South Scholars in the Western Academy engages a range of critical methodologies to explore the challenges that Global South scholars have faced in establishing themselves in academic settings in the Global North. The text identifies the unique position that scholars have come to adopt "in-between" North and South and theorizes this positionality as a "third space", which is carved out by academics negotiating personal, professional, and cultural belonging. This liminal subject position, enriched by experiences of migration, racialization, poverty, and difference, is shown to drive knowledge-production and justice-orientated approaches in the academy. This book provides a new and overdue perspective on the experiences and contributions of Global South scholars in the academy. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, and scholars with an interest in critical theory, indigenous and multicultural education, the sociology of education, and higher education.

Author : Piotr Spyra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000092813

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The Liminality of Fairies by Piotr Spyra Pdf

Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manifestations of liminality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Thomas of Erceldoune and Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice, the volume offers a comprehensive theory of liminality rooted in structuralist anthropology and poststructuralist theory. Arguing that romance fairies both embody and represent the liminal, The Liminality of Fairies posits and answers fundamental theoretical questions about the limits of representation and the relationship between romance hermeneutics and criticism. The interdisciplinary nature of the argument will appeal not just to medievalists and literary critics but also to anthropologists, folklorists as well as scholars working within the fields of cultural history and contemporary literary theory.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496843470

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Memories of Africa by Toyin Falola Pdf

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African Diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depict the experiences of African migrants over time through political, social, and cultural spheres. In reading African Diaspora memoirs from the transatlantic slave trade period to the present, a reader can understand the complexity of the African migrant legacy and evolution. Author Toyin Falola argues that memoirs are significant not only in their interpretation of events conveyed by the memoirists but also in demonstrating how interpersonal and human the stories told can be. Memoirs are powerful because they are emotionally captivating and because important themes and events circulate around a particular person (in this case, the memoirist). Undoubtedly, a memoir is significant because it can teach anyone about a part of the human experience, even if the “facts” are not described without bias. Through this sort of narrative, the reader cannot help but enter into the memoirist’s mind and, therefore, feel more empathy for them. In doing so, the reader can “feel” what the memoirist feels and “see” what the memoirist sees as clearly as is humanly possible. In this way, the historical events and life lessons become tangible and poignantly real to the reader.

Author : Bedrettin Yazan,Ethan Trinh,Luis Javier Pentón Herrera
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000858556

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Doctoral Students’ Identities and Emotional Wellbeing in Applied Linguistics by Bedrettin Yazan,Ethan Trinh,Luis Javier Pentón Herrera Pdf

This edited volume comprises an insightful collection of international autoethnographies from doctoral candidates in the field of applied linguistics, narrating and analyzing their student experiences to problematize and challenge the dominant and oppressive cultures of academia. Through 12 select contributions, the book examines the intersection of identity work and emotional labor in the doctoral student journey, sharing insights into the potential of autoethnography for self-reflection, community building, and healing in doctoral studies. Contributors examine their doctoral journeys through personal narratives and testimonials to understand their own experiences, agency, identity, and emotions, encouraging current or former doctoral students to engage in the critical reflection of their own experiences. Chapters are divided into four themes: interrelating multiple identities, navigating and negotiating in-betweenness, engaging emotions and wellbeing, and establishing support systems. Offering unique perspectives from a global spread of Ph.D. candidates, this book will be highly relevant reading for researchers and prospective or current doctoral students of applied linguistics, language education, TESOL, and LOTE. It will also be of interest to those interested in higher education, dissertation research, and autoethnography as a method.

Author : Aine Phillips
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781783204298

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Performance Art in Ireland by Aine Phillips Pdf

This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics. It features rigorous critical and theoretical analysis as well as historical commentaries that provide an absorbing sense of the rich histories of performance art in Ireland. Presenting diverse visual documentation of performance art practices, this collection shows how performance art in Ireland engaged with – and in turn influenced and led – contemporary performance and Live Art internationally. Co-published with Live Art Development Agency.

Author : Agnes Horvath,Paul O'Connor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000804331

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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease by Agnes Horvath,Paul O'Connor Pdf

Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of ‘liminal politics’: an open-ended ‘state of exception’ in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible – even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a ‘new normal’. With attention to the emergency measures introduced to counter the spread of Covid-19, it shows how the emergency suspension of democratic accountability, ordinary life and civil liberties, while accidental, can lend itself to orchestration and exploitation for the purpose of political gain by ‘trickster’ or ‘parasitic’ figures. An examination of the cloning of political responses from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, with little consideration of their rational justification or local context, this volume interrogates the underlying dynamics of a global technological mimetism, as novel technocratic interventions are repeated and the way is opened for new technologies to reorganise social life in a manner that threatens the disintegration of its existing patterns. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social theory and anthropological theory with interests in political expediency and the transformation of social life.

Author : Robert Kenedy,Margaret Greenfields,Jonathan Rollins,Sharmini Patricia Gabriel
Publisher : Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 1848881363

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Diasporic Identities and Spaces Between by Robert Kenedy,Margaret Greenfields,Jonathan Rollins,Sharmini Patricia Gabriel Pdf

Diasporic Identities and Space Between explores the idea that to be 'diasporic' is a process of inhabiting liminal spaces as part of a real and culturally dynamic identity, demonstrating that the term itself has evolved well beyond a description of communities living in exile to become a method of performing global identity.

Author : Clemens Wischermann,Aline Steinbrecher,Philip Howell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350054042

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Animal History in the Modern City by Clemens Wischermann,Aline Steinbrecher,Philip Howell Pdf

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Animals are increasingly recognized as fit and proper subjects for historians, yet their place in conventional historical narratives remains contested. This volume argues for a history of animals based on the centrality of liminality - the state of being on the threshold, not quite one thing yet not quite another. Since animals stand between nature and culture, wildness and domestication, the countryside and the city, and tradition and modernity, the concept of liminality has a special resonance for historical animal studies. Assembling an impressive cast of contributors, this volume employs liminality as a lens through which to study the social and cultural history of animals in the modern city. It includes a variety of case studies, such as the horse-human relationship in the towns of New Spain, hunting practices in 17th-century France, the birth of the zoo in Germany and the role of the stray dog in the Victorian city, demonstrating the interrelated nature of animal and human histories. Animal History in the Modern City is a vital resource for scholars and students interested in animal studies, urban history and historical geography.