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Being in the zone and vital subjectivity: On the liminal sources of sport and art [PDF]

, 2017
With the aim of re-contextualising the social dimensions of Being in the Zone whilst retaining its psychological resonance, this contribution thinks Bitz alongside van Gennep's notion of liminality and Turner's notion of the liminoid.
Stenner, Paul
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“Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non‐Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article introduces the concept of excluded participation to examine how inclusion and exclusion are negotiated in real time within a Danish fifth‐grade classroom. Using a micro‐sociological framework, particularly the work of Erving Goffman, the study focuses on the case of Anders, a student whose participation is symbolically recognized yet ...
Jørn Bjerre
wiley   +1 more source

‘Am I really gonna go sixty years without getting cancer again?’ Uncertainty and liminality in young women’s accounts of living with a history of breast cancer [PDF]

, 2016
Although much research has examined the experience of breast cancer, the distinctive perspectives and lives of young women have been relatively neglected.
Rees, Sophie
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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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Betwixt and Between Past and Present: Cultural and Generic Hybridity in the Fiction of Mary Yukari Waters [PDF]

, 2012
The cosmopolitan make-up of the American society has yielded cultural hybrid offspring and this cultural hybridity features strongly in contemporary American fiction.
Youssef, Rania Samir
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A new normal?: women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer [PDF]

, 2016
Increasing numbers of women are surviving breast cancer, but little is known about the long-term implications of having survived a life-threatening illness and living with embodied reminders of its potential to return.
Alison Pilnick, Allen, Balmer, Bartky, Benton, Blows, Bordo, Bury, Conrad, Costanzo, Crouch, Diane Trusson, Finch, Goffman, Holmberg, Jain, Janoff-Bulman, Koutrouli, Liamputtong, Little, Mays, McCann, McKenzie, Mukherjee, Murray, Neises, Parsons, Powers, Riessman, Roger, Roy, Srila Roy, Thomas-MacLean, Thompson, Tighe, Trusson, Trusson, Turner, Turner, Williams, Wilmoth, Young   +41 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
wiley   +1 more source

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

Splot i liminalność. Pojęcie splotu w koncepcji systemu kościelnego Tomasza Polaka w kontekście hiperliminalnej współczesności

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
The article reconstructs and critically reinterprets Tomasz Polak’s concept of „nexus”, proposed to describe the church system as a “social machine.” Nexus is treated as a mechanism that couples project, phantasm, and the symbolic order, thereby ...
Marcin Pietrzak
doaj   +1 more source

Liminal entrepreneuring : the creative practices of nascent necessity entrepreneurs [PDF]

, 2017
This paper contributes to creative entrepreneurship studies through exploring ‘liminal entrepreneuring’, i.e., the organization-creation entrepreneurial practices and narratives of individuals living in precarious conditions.
Cassar G., du Gay P, Hjorth D., J. Miguel Imas, Jones C., Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Paul Donnelly, Sarasvathy S. D., Schumpeter J. A., Steyaert C., Turner V. W., Turner V. W., Turner V. W., van Gennep A   +14 more
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