Liminality and Critical Event Studies

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.

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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.

ContributorsPeter Vlachos, University of GreenwichAshley Garlick, University of West LondonNaz Ali, University of East LondonBarbara Grabher, Independent ScholarSeth Kirby, Anglia Ruskin University
Mike Duignan, Anglia Ruskin University
Angela Wichmann, Fresenius University of Applied SciencesAndrea Pavoni, University of Westminster
Samuel B. Bernstein, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Zachary T. Smith, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of ColoradoGeoff Holloway, Independent ScholarSebastiano Citroni, Universita' Degli Studi di Milano
Gianmarco Navarini, Universita' Degli Studi di Milano
Rasul A. Mowatt, Indiana UniversityRuxandra Gubernat, Universite Paris NanterreHenry P. Rammelt, National University of Political Science and Public Administration
Susan Ashley, Northumbria University
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso, SOAS University of London

Inhalt
Part I.1. Subjectivity and aesthetics in events management studies; P. Vlachos2. Liminality and event design: Implications for event professionals; A. Garlick and Nazia Ali3. The problem of the liminal norm; R. Finkel and L. PlattPart II.4. Flash, bang, pop-up. Liminoid spaces and fringe events participation; C. Laws5. Deeper engagement: Using liminality to enhance audience experience at arts festivals in Australia; J. Mackellar6. U2's '360' tour: A liminal experience of communal enchantment; M. Williams7. If you can't tell does it matter? Uncanny liminality and the pursuit of purpose in HBO's 'Westworld'; R. JonesPart III.8. Searching for sites of liminality in 'giga-events'; M. Duignan and S. Kirby9. From ordinary life into the liminoid and back again; A. Wichmann10. Experiencing abstraction: Protest, event and liminality at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; A.Pavoni11. Sit in the shadows: The Black body as American event; Z. Smith and S.B. BernsteinPart IV.12. Liminality and ritual order: What is at stake in public political events?; S. Citroni and G. Navarini13. Events of dissent. Events of the self: The liminality of selfies at protests as digital activism; R. Mowatt14. Liminality and activism: Conceptualising political participation in Eastern Europe; H. Rammelt and R. Gubernat15. Crowds, events and 'acts' of citizenship: Liminal politics at the Chattri Memorial; S. Ashley16. Understanding Egyptian revolutionary art within a liminality framework; R. Bseiso