Liminality, Transgression and Space Across the World

This book analyses various forms of liminality and transgression in different geographies, demonstrates how and why various physical and symbolic boundaries create liminality and transgression.

Autorentext

Basak Tanulku is an independent scholar based in Istanbul, Turkey. She holds a PhD degree in sociology, Lancaster University in the UK. She conducted her PhD study on gated communities. Since then, Tanulku has worked on different subjects, such as socio-spatial fragmentation, urban transformation and vacancy, urban gardens, alternative spaces and initiatives, urban protests, and the conflicts that emerge in public spaces and commons, boundary-making and the interaction between space and people. Lastly, Tanulku works on the Lake District and Cumbria (England), particularly on the interaction between its natural and cultural elements and its culture and wild(er)ness.

Simone Pekelsma is in the final stages of her PhD at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She has great interest in translating her academic work to other worlds, including policy (i.e. Eurocities) and popular science (Geografie Magazine and Agora Magazine). Simone currently works for Utrecht University in a double role. She is a knowledge broker/business developer in human geography and spatial planning and the managing director of a research hub on the future of food.

Inhalt

Introduction: Living on the Edge, by Basak Tanulku and Simone Pekelsma

Section 1: Liminality, Identity and Space

1. Shelter, a Portrait in Transit(ion): Gender and Migration by João Pedro Amorim.

2. Towards a Tranarcha Border Framework: Sex, Borders & Anarchism by Alfonzo Mendoza.

3. The dual nature of the threshold (in the pandemic era), by Ioanna Papakonstantinou-Brati.

4. Living on the Boundary: Interstitial Identities in Contemporary Burundi by Antea Paviotti.

5. Liminality when grounded: micro-mobilities in contemporary art practice during the COVID-19 pandemic by Pia Johnson and Clare McCracken.

6. Birds Through my Window: Photography as Liminal Looking by John Darwell and Katrin Joost.

Section 2: Liminality and the City

7. Hotel living: the contemporary mixed-use gated community in Istanbul by Simone Pekelsma.

8. Liminality as anti-infrastructure? Boundary making and breaking in infrastructure construction by Sam Rumé.

9. Childhoods on the Move: an ethnography of a Brazilian school bus by Fernanda Müller and Luiz Eduardo de Lacerda Abreu.

10. Digital Magic and the Disappearing City by Shannon Jackson.

11. Border Research from Design Cultures: Cyprus Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale as transformative proposals for Nicosia's borderscapes by Alice Buoli.

Section 3: Liminality across and beyond the Country

12. Landscape, Liminality, Lament by Ann Carragher.

13. The Lake District: Liminal Landscape between North and South by Basak Tanulku.

14. Euroscapes: Negotiating National and European Identities through Imagined Boundaries by Jeroen Moes.

15. Stepping off the Wooden Path: A Visual Essay by Gintare Kudmait.

16. Curating Boundaries and Liminality: A Method for Disruption by Giulia Degano.

Epilogue: We are all borderworkers by Paschalina T. Garidou, Luuk Winkelmolen and Henk van Houtum