Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality -

Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality

Brady Wagoner, Tania Zittoun (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
XVI, 200 Seiten
2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-83173-8 (ISBN)
117,69 inkl. MwSt

Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human experience and social life that fall outside of ordered structures. In contrast to the clearly defined roles and routines that define so much of industrial work and economic life, it highlights spaces of transition, indefiniteness, ambiguity, play and creativity. Thus, it is an indispensable concept and a necessary counterweight to the overemphasis on structural influences on human behavior.

This book aims to use the concept of liminality to develop a culturally and experientially sensitive psychology. This is accomplished by first setting out an original theoretical framework focused on understanding the 'liminal sources of cultural experience,' and second an application of concept to a number of different domains, such as tourism, pilgrimage, aesthetics, children's play, art therapy, andmedical diagnosis. Finally, all these domains are then brought together in a concluding commentary chapter that puts them in relation to an overarching theoretical framework. 

This book will be useful for graduate students and researchers in cultural psychology, critical psychology, psychosocial psychology, developmental psychology, health psychology, anthropology and the social sciences, cultural studies among others.

lt;p> Brady Wagoner is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Centre for Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University as well as Professor II at Bjørknes Høyskole. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he also co-created the F.C. Bartlett Internet Archive. He is associate editor of the journals Culture & Psychology and on several editorial boards. His research focuses on the cultural and constructive dimensions of the mind, particularly in relation to memory, imagination and social change. His most recent books include The Constructive Mind: Bartlett's Psychology in Reconstruction (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Handbook of Culture and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Psychology of Radical Social Change with Fathali Moghaddam and Jaan Valsiner (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He has received two early career awards from the American Psychological Association (divisions 24 and 26) and has been a research fellow at the Institutes for Advanced Studies in Lyon, Madrid and Amsterdam.

Foreword; Introduction.- Part I. Innovations in Psychology lecture.- 1. Theorizing Liminality between art and life: The liminal sources of cultural experiences-Paul Stenner; Part II. Commentaries and extensions.- 2. From liminalities to limbo: thinking through semiotic elaboration.- 3. On/At the Edges of Liminality: Analytic extensions.- 4. Moral Holidays: The cases of expatriates and nightlife tourists.- 5. On the Way: Pilgrimage and liminal experience-Zachary Beckstead.- 6. Liminality in play: The role of materiality and patterns.- 7. Maintenance Art: Paul Stenner's liminality and the case of older caregiving spouses.- 8. Art therapy as a liminal, playful space: Patient experiences during a cancer rehabilitation program-Roessler, Hvidt, laCour, Mau, Graven & Assing Hvidt.- 9. "I must have contracted swine flu, bird flu or Ebola.": How patients and general practitioners negotiate liminality during consultation.- Part III. Concluding response.- 10. A feast of liminal experiences and expression.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences
Zusatzinfo XVI, 200 p. 10 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 335 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Schlagworte Aesthetics • cultural experience • Human Experience • Liminality • liminal sources • Paul Stenner • psychosocial adaptations • Social Science
ISBN-10 3-030-83173-6 / 3030831736
ISBN-13 978-3-030-83173-8 / 9783030831738
Zustand Neuware
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