ABSTRACT

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

Its focus is on comprehending the ways in which these borders and boundaries generate liminality and transgression rather than viewing them solely as issues. It provides case studies from the past and present, allowing readers to connect subjects, periods, and geographies. It consists of theoretical and empirical chapters that demonstrate how borders and liminality are interconnected. The book also benefits from the power of several visual essays by artists to complete the theoretical and empirical chapters which demonstrate different forms of liminality without need of much words.

The book will be of interest to researchers and students working in the fields of urban and rural studies, urban sociology, cities and communities, urban and regional planning, urban anthropology, political science, migration studies, human geography, cultural geography, urban anthropology, and visual arts.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Living on the edge

section 1|92 pages

Liminality, identity and space

chapter 1|16 pages

Shelter – a portrait in transit(ion)

Gender and migration

chapter 2|16 pages

Towards a Tranarcha Border framework

Sex, borders, and anarchism

chapter 4|15 pages

Living on the boundary

Interstitial identities in contemporary Burundi

chapter 5|19 pages

Liminality when grounded

Micro-mobilities in contemporary art practice during the COVID-19 pandemic

chapter 6|9 pages

Birds through my Window

Photography as Liminal Looking

section 2|78 pages

Liminality and the city

chapter 7|15 pages

Hotel living

The contemporary mixed-use gated community in Istanbul

chapter 9|14 pages

Childhoods on the move

An ethnography of a Brazilian school bus

chapter 11|17 pages

Border research from design cultures

Cyprus Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale as transformative proposals for Nicosia's borderscapes

section 3|80 pages

Liminality across and beyond the country

chapter 12|17 pages

Landscape, liminality, lament

chapter 13|15 pages

The Lake District

Liminal landscape between North and South

chapter 14|20 pages

Euroscapes

Negotiating National and European identities through imagined boundaries

chapter 15|11 pages

Stepping off the wooden path

A Visual Essay

chapter 16|15 pages

Curating boundaries and liminality

A method for disruption