The challenge of liminality for international relations theory
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The challenge of liminality for international relations theory. / Mälksoo, M.
Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality. Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality. ed. Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2015.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The challenge of liminality for international relations theory
AU - Mälksoo, M.
N1 - Mälksoo, Maria (2015). The Challenge of Liminality for International Relations Theory. In: Horvath, Agnes, Bjørn Thomassen and Harald Wydra (Ed.). Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality (226−244). New York and Oxford: Berghahn.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The concept of liminality favours a broad interpretation, lending itself easily to disciplinary contexts outside of the original framework of cultural anthropology. Developed by Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner by exploring the rites of passage, liminality points to in-between situations and conditions where established structures are dislocated, hierarchies reversed, and traditional settings of authority possibly endangered. The liminal state is a central phase in all social and cultural transitions as it marks the passage of the subject through ‘a cultural realm that has few or none of the attributes of the past or coming state’. It is thus a realm of great ambiguity, since the ‘liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremonial’. Yet, as a threshold situation, liminality is also a vital moment of creativity, a potential platform for renewing the societal make-up.
AB - The concept of liminality favours a broad interpretation, lending itself easily to disciplinary contexts outside of the original framework of cultural anthropology. Developed by Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner by exploring the rites of passage, liminality points to in-between situations and conditions where established structures are dislocated, hierarchies reversed, and traditional settings of authority possibly endangered. The liminal state is a central phase in all social and cultural transitions as it marks the passage of the subject through ‘a cultural realm that has few or none of the attributes of the past or coming state’. It is thus a realm of great ambiguity, since the ‘liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremonial’. Yet, as a threshold situation, liminality is also a vital moment of creativity, a potential platform for renewing the societal make-up.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - liminality
KW - international relations theory
KW - political anthropology
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M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-1-78238-766-4
BT - Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality
PB - Berghahn Books
CY - Oxford
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