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The Uses and Meaning of Liminality

Bjørn Thomassen
- 03 Mar 2009 - 
- Vol. 2, Iss: 1, pp 5-28
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This article is published in International Political Anthropology.The article was published on 2009-03-03 and is currently open access. It has received 213 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Meaning (existential) & Liminality.

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Betwixt and between identities: Liminal experience in contemporary careers

TL;DR: The authors argue that under-institutionalized liminality is both more difficult to endure and more fertile for identity growth than the highly institutionalized experiences that gave rise to the original notion.
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Crafted within liminal spaces: Young people's everyday politics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how high school-aged young people from New Zealand are crafting their everyday political subjectivities within the liminal status and liminal spaces they occupy in society.
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Liminality in Management and Organization Studies: Process, Position and Place

TL;DR: A recent systematic review of the literature on liminality, covering 61 published papers, reveals associations with three main themes: process, position, and place as discussed by the authors, and suggests that revising the agenda for Liminality research along these lines could facilitate more informed responses to the challenges of an increasingly temporary and dynamic work life.
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Social Media as Social Transition Machinery

TL;DR: This work qualitatively analyzed data from transition blogs on Tumblr, a social media blogging site on which people document their gender transitions, and in-depth interviews with transgender bloggers to understand how people experience liminality on social media and contributes a new understanding ofLiminality.
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Notes towards an Anthropology of Political Revolutions

TL;DR: In this article, a series of reasons why anthropologists can enrich and supplement existing political science and history traditions in the study of political revolutions are presented, via key concepts developed by Victor Turner: "liminality,", "social drama, social drama", "communitas", "frame, and play".