Liminality and Critical Event Studies: Borders, Boundaries, and Contestation

ISBN-13: 9783030402587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 299 str.

Ian R. Lamond; Jonathan Moss

Spis treści

Part I.

1. Subjectivity and aesthetics in events management studies; P. Vlachos

2. Liminality and event design: Implications for event professionals; A. Garlick and Nazia Ali

3. The problem of the liminal norm; R. Finkel and L. Platt

Part II.

4. Flash, bang, pop-up. Liminoid spaces and fringe events participation; C. Laws

5. Deeper engagement: Using liminality to enhance audience experience at arts festivals in Australia; J. Mackellar

6. U2’s ‘360’ tour: A liminal experience of communal enchantment; M. Williams

7. If you can’t tell does it matter? Uncanny liminality and the pursuit of purpose in HBO’s ‘Westworld’; R. Jones

Part III.

8. Searching for sites of liminality in ‘giga-events’; M. Duignan and S. Kirby

9. From ordinary life into the liminoid and back again; A. Wichmann

10. Experiencing abstraction: Protest, event and liminality at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; A.Pavoni

11. Sit in the shadows: The Black body as American event; Z. Smith and S.B. Bernstein

Part IV.

12. Liminality and ritual order: What is at stake in public political events?; S. Citroni and G. Navarini

13. Events of dissent. Events of the self: The liminality of selfies at protests as digital activism; R. Mowatt

14. Liminality and activism: Conceptualising political participation in Eastern Europe; H. Rammelt and R. Gubernat

15. Crowds, events and ‘acts’ of citizenship: Liminal politics at the Chattri Memorial; S. Ashley

16. Understanding Egyptian revolutionary art within a liminality framework; R. Bseiso

O autorze

 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

Blurb

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.

 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.