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Drinking in the North of European Russia: From Traditional to Totalising Liminality
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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Seeking Dhasa; Finding Lhasa: Liminality and Narrative in the Tibetan Refugee Capital of Dharamsala
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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In this article it is demonstrated why and how liminality has developed into a key concept in Practical Theology, in particular in Liturgical Studies.
M. Barnard
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Early Gulag Studies Between Ostracism And Forgetfulness
This article is devoted to a group of closely related people who, having fought Bolsheviks, remained in Soviet Russia, adopting survivalist conformism, yet did not avoid arrest, prison, exile and camp; who escaped from the country to save their lives and
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On the Edge of Existence: Malian Migrants in the Maghreb
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Malian migrants and migration brokers in Mali, Algeria, Morocco, and France, this article investigates life in exile on the edge of Europe.
Line Richter
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'The show must go on': Event dramaturgy as consolidation of community [PDF]
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. +20 more
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Understanding Difficult Consumer Transitions: The In/Dividual Consumer in Permanent Liminality
AbstractSome life transitions are difficult and prolonged, such as becoming an independent adult, forming a family, or adopting healthy consumption habits. Permanent liminality describes transitions that can span years and even a lifetime with no anticipated end. To understand how consumers are caught in permanent liminality, we examine how Pentecostal
Jill G Klein +2 more
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Thinking Through Translation with Theodoros Angelopoulos: Journeys, Border Crossings, Liminality
In this paper, I propose to examine the question of journeys, borders, and translation in Theodoros Angelopoulos’ Trilogy of Borders: The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) and Eternity and a Day (1998), winner of the Palme d’Or at ...
Adriana Şerban
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Baghdad’s thirdspace: Between liminality, anti-structures and territorial mappings [PDF]
Wedged in-between the dense urban grain of Baghdad, blast walls of t-shaped concrete have littered the streets and neighbourhoods since 2003, after the US led invasion. The idiosyncrasy of these walls lies in their exaggerated spatial liminality.
Al-Ali Z +23 more
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Platinum City and the New South African Dream [PDF]
Much has been written about the persistence of economic apartheid inscribed on the geography of South Africa’s cities. This has intensified fragmentation, producing spatial configurations that are at once reminiscent of the old order of segregation, and
Barnes +13 more
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