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DIGITAL REALITY AS A NEW MANIFESTATION PHENOMENA OF BORDER CULTURE

Russian Studies in Culture and Society
This article is dedicated to the analysis of the phenomenon of cultural liminality and its manifestation through digital space, opening new possibilities for cross-cultural interaction and creating hybrid cultural forms.
Maria E. Kulyan-Kozionova, Maria V. Shimolina, Elena G. Shchekina   +2 more
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The liminality of training spaces: Places of private/public transitions [PDF]

, 2006
This paper draws upon research, conducted for the London West Learning and Skills Council, on the training experiences of women with dependent children. One of the striking revelations of the research, we suggest, is the way in which training spaces are ...
Adam, Azaryahou, Bain, Department for Education and Employment, Department for Education and Skills, Elodie Marandet, Emma Wainwright, Fiona Smith, Fiske, Giddens, Hayford, Herod, Horelli, Kingsmill, Marilyn Diosi, Martin, McDowell, McDowell, McDowell, McDowell, McGivney, McGivney, McGivney, Milroy, Nashashibi, O’Connor, Pahl, Philo, Pratt, Quinn, Roberts, Schuller, Shields, Social Exclusion Unit, Susan Buckingham, Turner, Turner, Turner   +37 more
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Decorating the Neolithic: an Evaluation of the Use of Plaster in the Enhancement of Daily Life in the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant [PDF]

, 2012
During the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B in the southern Levant the use of lime plaster in both ritual and domestic contexts increased significantly relative to previous periods.
Clarke, Joanne
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Seeking Dhasa; Finding Lhasa: Liminality and Narrative in the Tibetan Refugee Capital of Dharamsala

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2016
This article explores the role of narrative and narrativity in stabilising identity in an exile setting, read here as a way to avert what Bjørn Thomassen calls the ‘danger’ inherent to liminality.
Harmony Siganporia
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An der Schwelle zwischen Stettin und Szczecin. Zur Liminalitätsproblematik in "Confinium. Szczecińska opowieść" von Krzysztof Niewrzęda

Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia
The aim of this paper is to discuss the issue of liminality in "Confinium. Szczecińska opowieść" by Krzysztof Niewrzęda. The novel by the Polish writer, poet and essayist from Szczecin, who has lived in Germany since 1989, deals with an important period ...
Ewa Hendryk
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Reclaiming Sacred Space [PDF]

, 2019
I wrote this piece for myself as a hybrid of personal discovery and academic inquiry, and I hope it can guide and empower others like myself. In this piece, I examine the intersections of queer identity with religious and spiritual identity development ...
Long, Patrick Griffin
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

De-migranticizing as methodology: rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality

Comparative Migration Studies
De-migranticization is becoming a core strategy for overcoming the fetishization of migrants in migration studies. However, this shift in perspectives raises questions about what categories to use instead.
Parvati Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines, Ashley Gunter   +2 more
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