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Permanent liminality, legal community, and migration law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Ketan Jha examines contemporary immigration detention procedures and Home Office enforcement practice through the lens of liminality. The chapter examines case law in the European Court of Human Rights, British appellate courts, and criminological studies conducted inside Immigration Removal Centres in light of Giorgio Agamben’s state of exception.
Jha, Ketan
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Coping with Permanent Liminality: Social Understanding and Action through Theatre in Late Communist Hungary

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
Theatre is the modern liminoid equivalent of ritual liminality, according to Victor Turner. It is also, like most arts, a Janus-faced phenomenon: on one hand, it is a way to systematically infect the public with mimetic desire and rivalry (this is the ...
Arpad Szakolczai
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A Temporary Liminal Space Counteracting the Permanent ‘in between’ in Working Life

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019
Ambiguous liminality used to exist ‘in between’, in a transition to a new social-structural order, but recently, it has gained a more permanent and normalized presence in working life, where existing boundaries are becoming blurred.
Hanne Vesala, Seppo Tuomivaara
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Jude The Liminal: A Catastrophic Pursuit? [PDF]

open access: yesAnkara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2016
Thomas Hardy's last novel Jude the Obscure (1895) is centred on its working-class protagonist Jude Fawley's efforts rst to become a scholar, then his experiences of resisting the orthodoxies of his society and lastly defying Christianity as a ...
Gülşah GÖÇMEN
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Introduction: Rupture and Exile: Permanent Liminality in Spaces for Movement and Abandonment

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2016
No abstract available.
Harmony Siganporia, Frank G. Karioris
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New wars and permanent liminality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The aim of the paper is to give an anthropological and historical background analysis of the new type of wars characteristic of our times. It will start from the point that ‘new wars’ are not a recent phenomena; rather, the modern world can be characterized by an entire series of puzzling ‘new type of wars’, moving backwards through the ‘Cold War’ and ...
Szakolczai, Árpád
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Transformations of the Beirut River: Between Temporary and Permanent Liminality

open access: yesUrban Planning
This article presents the case of the Beirut River corridor in Lebanon, which defines the administrative border between the capital Beirut, its eastern and south-eastern suburbs.
Christine Mady
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Occupational limbo, transitional liminality and permanent liminality: New conceptual distinctions [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Relations, 2017
This article contributes new theoretical perspectives and empirical findings to the conceptualization of occupational liminality. Here, we posit ‘occupational limbo’ as a state distinct from both transitional and permanent liminality; an important analytic distinction in better understanding occupational experiences.
Bamber, Matthew   +2 more
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Reconceptualization of status liminality in the sociological theory

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2020
This article aims at filling some theoretical gaps in understanding status liminality as a transition state in the processes of social mobility. Based on the ideas of A. van Gennep and V.
I. V. Katernyi
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Life-as-Lived Today: Perpetual (Undesired) Liminality of the Half-widows of Kashmir

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2016
According to Victor Turner, all liminality must eventually dissolve, for it is a state of great intensity that cannot exist very long without some sort of structure to stabilize it. This paper takes his lead and attempts to describe the liminal status of
Paul DSouza
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