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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 303040255X ISBN 13: 9783030402556

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

 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

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303040255X
• ISBN 13: 9783030402556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 317
• Editor: Lamond Ian R., Moss Jonathan