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Occupational limbo, transitional liminality and permanent liminality: New conceptual distinctions

Human Relations, 2017
Matthew Bamber, Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, John McCormack   +2 more
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Fostering the social utility of events: an integrative framework for the strategic use of events in community development [PDF]

, 2013
Although the use of planned events for achieving community development has received academic attention from different disciplines, the findings of these literatures are not systematically used towards developing a common understanding aimed at fostering ...
Ziakas, V
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Academic Department Chairs: Heightened Complexity, Accentuated Liminality, and Competing Perceptions of Reinvention

Innovative Higher Education, 2021
This article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic department chairs. Through a survey of 172 department chairs in the United States, the central findings of this research—intensified challenges, a multidirectional leadership pivot ...
Ralph A. Gigliotti
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Insights from Liminality

Sisyphus, 2023
This study explores the concept of liminality, a transitional phase marked by uncertainty and disorientation, within the context of adult education. The research employed the correspondence method, engaging in a three-month exchange with a participant ...
Maja Maksimović
doaj   +1 more source

Festival Space: gender, liminality and the carnivalesque [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose - Contemporary outdoor rock and popular music festivals offer liminal spaces in which event participants can experience characteristics associated with the carnivalesque.
Pielichaty, Hanya
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“Hamsun's Liminality”

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2020
This study seeks to establish the extent to which In Wonderland is a cultural hybridity discourse and a writing-back to Euro-American travelogues. In this ‘different’ travelogue, Hamsun’s voice cuts through the borderlands of the Russian colonized ...
Soha El Samad
doaj   +1 more source

'The show must go on': Event dramaturgy as consolidation of community [PDF]

, 2012
Event dramaturgy and cultural performance have not been examined in the literature from a strategic standpoint of fostering the social value of events. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the case of the Water Carnival, a celebratory event in ...
Berg B. L., Butler J., Butler R., Carla A. Costa, Conquergood D., DaMatta R., Flores M. E., Geertz C., Goffman E., Handelman D., Higham J., Janiskee R. L., Lincoln Y. S., MacAloon J. J., Mathews-Salazar P., Ryden K. C., Schechner R., Stewart J., Turner V., Turner V., Vassilios Ziakas   +20 more
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Drinking in the North of European Russia: From Traditional to Totalising Liminality

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2016
This article explores the topic of alcohol consumption in Russia. My fieldwork was conducted in the north of European Russia between 2010 and 2014 in Arkhangelskaya and Vologodskaya oblasts.
Andrei V. Tutorsky
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Liminality in J.M. Coetzee’s later experimental texts

Literator, 2015
Postcoloniality, which is essentially concerned with the transition and transgression of boundaries and borders, contextualises and defines liminality as an ephemeral concept that eludes pinning down.
Annemie Grobler, A.M. de Lange, M.J. Wenzel   +2 more
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V.S. Naipaul’s A way in the world: contesting liminality by translating the historical past

Literator, 2006
In this article the concept of liminality is understood in a broad sense to mean the incompleteness of historical representation and the restrained view of reality.
ZHU Ying
doaj   +1 more source