Liminality and the Modern

Thomassen, Bjørn

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“…Passage-and thus questions of liminality and becoming, more generally-shifts from being the exception (highly formalised, temporary, and always leading to a new clearly structured "room"), to being something that approximates "the rule." Arpad Szakolczai (2000Szakolczai ( , 2017 has developed the concept of permanent liminality to grasp the new centrality that liminal experience has in our social existence today, and this notion has been applied in a variety of disciplinary fields (Andrews & Roberts, 2012;Boland, 2013;Horvath, 2013;Johnsen & Sørensen, 2015;Thomassen, 2014;Vaira, 2014;Wydra, 2015). The concept of liminal hotspots builds on this tradition of work in conjunction with insights from cybernetics and the pragmatics of communication, in the context of a process-theoretical approach (Stenner, 2008).…”

Section: A Liminal Hotspot Expressed Generally From a Sociopsychologimentioning

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“…Under certain conditions, such phenomena and processes can tip the balance to become, in turn, attractors, prompting a "second-order" transformation (Watzlawick, Weakland, & Fish, 1974) at the level of actualised patterns and the type of experiences they facilitate. On a societal scale, such transformations are perhaps best exemplified by revolutions (see Scott Georgsen & Thomassen, 2017;Sewell, 1996;Thomassen, 2014).…”

Section: An Ontological Definition Of Liminality and Liminal Hotspotsmentioning

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From paradox to pattern shift: Conceptualising liminal hotspots and their affective dynamics

Greco

Stenner

2017

Theory & Psychology

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This paper introduces the concept of liminal hotspots as a specifically psychosocial and sociopsychological type of wicked problem, best addressed in a processtheoretical framework. A liminal hotspot is defined as an occasion characterised by the experience of being trapped in the interstitial dimension between different formsof-process. The paper has two main aims. First, to articulate a nexus of concepts associated with liminal hotspots that together provide general analytic purchase on a wide range of problems concerning 'troubled' becoming. Second, to provide concrete illustrations through examples drawn from the health domain. In the conclusion, we briefly indicate the sense in which liminal hotspots are part of broader and deeper historical processes associated with changing modes for the management and navigation of liminality.

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Section: A Liminal Hotspot Expressed Generally From a Sociopsychologimentioning

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Section: An Ontological Definition Of Liminality and Liminal Hotspotsmentioning

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From paradox to pattern shift: Conceptualising liminal hotspots and their affective dynamics

Greco

Stenner

2017

Theory & Psychology

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“…Or does it serve as a potential open space of unprecedented positive and active freedoms and opportunities? (see also: Thomassen 2016, 1-2).…”

Section: “Migration Studies” and The Turnerian Concept Of Liminalitymentioning

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The sociology of the limit: Reformulating the question of migration through Van Gennep

Gazit

2018

Journal of Classical Sociology

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This article situates Van Gennep’s Rites de passage in the contemporary field of migration studies, arguing that his second and third chapters allow us to reformulate how we conceptualize contemporary migratory encounters. Rather than reading Van Gennep’s classical text through the prevalent Turnerian lens of “liminality” in migration, I reread it as offering a conceptualization of migration as deriving from society’s establishment on a delimited piece of earth, constituting itself against and in relation to its own limits. Society’s limit then becomes the center of social inquiry, while the strangers at the gate are seen as an integral part of these fundamental relations between a social grouping and the delimited space it occupies. The article further suggests that Van Gennep’s sociology of the limit offers the field of migration studies three practical analytical contributions: (a) its notion of the multiplicity of limits and sublimits emerging throughout the migratory encounter; (b) its emphasis on the sanctification of the limit, which opens up the possibility of analyzing the relations between migration and emotions; and (c) its pointing to the potential cycle of dread elicited by this sanctification—a notion highly relevant to analyzing contemporary migratory encounters.

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“…45 Szakolczai gibi Thomassen de modern hayatı kalıcı liminalite kavramıyla ilişkilendirmekte, on altı ve on yedinci yüzyıldan, özellikle de yeni bir çağa geçiş dönemi olarak görülen Rönesans ve Aydınlanmadan itibaren liminalitenin modern bir proje olarak kurumsallaştığını ifade etmektedir. 46…”

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“Arada Kalmak”: Kalıcı Bir Liminalite Örneği Olarak Türk Modernleşmesi

Şahin

2019

Journal of History and Future

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Bu çalışma, 19. yüzyılın Türk modernleşmesi için bir geçiş dönemi olduğu iddiasındadır. Osmanlı Devleti'nin bu geçiş dönemine Batı Avrupa'dan farklı olarak toplumsal ve kültürel dinamiklerin etkisiyle şekillenen ve uzunca bir sürece yayılan aşamalar yerine, oldukça kısa bir sürede ve makro politikalar vasıtasıyla girmesinin, modern bir sosyal düzeni değil, kalıcı liminaliteyi açığa çıkardığı ve eski ile yeni, Doğu ile Batı, modernlik ile gelenek arasında kalmış bir toplumsal gerçekliği inşa ettiği iddiasındadır. Çalışma, bu temel tezini açıklamak için öncelikle, Osmanlı Devleti'nin Batılılaşma politikaları bağlamında 19. yüzyılda geçirdiği yapısal ve kültürel değişim ihlal, kriz, liminalite ve yeniden yapılanma aşamalarından oluşan bir süreç olarak ele almak, modernleşmenin gerçekleştiği tüm bu süreci ise bir geçiş dönemi olarak kavramlaştırmak niyetindedir. Ayrıca, geçiş döneminin modern bir sosyal düzen yerine, kalıcı liminaliteyi üretmekle sonuçlanan Batılılaşma projesini genel hatlarıyla aşama aşama ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. Toplumsal değişimi bir süreç ve geçiş dönemi olarak ele almak için Van Gennep ve Turner'in süreç yaklaşımları, özellikle de liminalite kavramları, modernleşmenin yarattığı aradalık halinin kalıcılığını işaret etmek için ise Szakolczai'nin modernliği tamamlanmamış bir değişim olarak değerlendirdiği kalıcı liminalite kavramı esas alınmıştır.

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Liminality and the Modern

Cited by 98 publications

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From paradox to pattern shift: Conceptualising liminal hotspots and their affective dynamics

From paradox to pattern shift: Conceptualising liminal hotspots and their affective dynamics

The sociology of the limit: Reformulating the question of migration through Van Gennep

“Arada Kalmak”: Kalıcı Bir Liminalite Örneği Olarak Türk Modernleşmesi

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