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Liminality and Critical Event Studies

Borders, Boundaries, and Contestation

Palgrave Macmillan
  • The first text within event studies to place the concepts of liminality and the liminoid at the very center of its work
  • Enriches the body of knowledge within event studies while also facilitating stronger links to other disciplines, furthering event studies/critical event studies as a truly interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary field
  • Encourages a deeper understanding and critical evaluation of the role of experience within events research

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introduction

    • Ian R. Lamond, Jonathan Moss
    Pages 1-13
  3. Overtures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. What Is Liminality in Critical Event Studies Research?

      • Ian R. Lamond, Jonathan Moss
      Pages 17-33
  4. Oratorios

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-57
    2. Liminality and Event Design: Liminal Space Design for Sport Events

      • Ashley Garlick, Nazia (Naz) Ali
      Pages 59-78
    3. The Privilege of Subversion

      • Barbara Grabher
      Pages 79-98
    4. Searching for Sites of Liminality in Giga-Events

      • Seth I. Kirby, Michael B. Duignan
      Pages 99-118
    5. ‘Sit in the Shadows’: The Black Body as American Event

      • Samuel B. Bernstein, Zachary T. Smith, Jeffrey Montez de Oca
      Pages 167-185
    6. Double Liminality: Fado Events and Tourism

      • Geoff Holloway
      Pages 187-198
  5. Counterpoints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-201
    2. Liminality and Ritual Order: Italy’s National Elections of 2018

      • Sebastiano Citroni, Gianmarco Navarini
      Pages 203-221
    3. Events of Dissent, Events of the Self

      • Rasul A. Mowatt
      Pages 223-245
    4. Egyptian Revolutionary Art Through a Liminal Framework

      • Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso
      Pages 279-295
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 297-299

About this book

This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of events. It will be of interest to researchers in event studies, social and discursive psychology, cultural and political sociology, and social movement studies. In addition, it will provide interested general readers with new ways of thinking and reflecting on events. Contributing authors undertake a discussion of the borders, boundaries, and areas of contestation between the established social anthropological concept of liminality and the emerging field of critical event studies. By drawing these two perspectives closer together, the collection considers tensions and resonances between them, and uses those connections to enhance our understanding of both cultural and sporting events and offer fresh insight into events of activism, protest, and dissent.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

    Ian R. Lamond, Jonathan Moss

About the editors

 Dr. Ian R. Lamond is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University (UK). His work focuses on critical approaches to understanding events. His interests include events of protest and dissent, the eventalisation of the political, the commodification of death, cult fiction fandom, and graphic storytelling. His other works include two edited collections and two co-authored monographs.

Dr. Jonathan Moss is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University (UK). His PhD dissertation used phenomenological psychology to situate music festival experiences in the ideographic Lifeworld of the attendees. He is currently writing two papers: one regarding the use of descriptive experience sampling methods in event studies, and the other considering how neurophenomenology contributes to our understanding of collective and shared emotions.



Contributors
Peter Vlachos, University of Greenwich
Ashley Garlick, University of West London
Naz Ali, University of East London
Barbara Grabher, Independent Scholar
Seth Kirby, Anglia Ruskin University

Mike Duignan, Anglia Ruskin University

Angela Wichmann, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Andrea Pavoni, University of Westminster

Samuel B. Bernstein, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Zachary T. Smith, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado
Geoff Holloway, Independent Scholar
Sebastiano Citroni, Universita’ Degli Studi di Milano

Gianmarco Navarini, Universita’ Degli Studi di Milano

Rasul A. Mowatt, Indiana University
Ruxandra Gubernat, Universite Paris Nanterre
Henry P. Rammelt, National University of Political Science and Public Administration

Susan Ashley, Northumbria University

Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso, SOAS – University of London





















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eBook USD 84.99
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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