Description
Book Synopsis Moving, slowing down, or watching others moving allows people to cross physical, symbolic, and temporal boundaries. Exploring the imaginative power of liminality that makes this possible, Liminal Moves looks at the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobility creates a ‘liminal hotspot’: a condition of suspension and ambivalence as they find themselves caught between places, meanings and times.
Trade Review “Excellent. Very timely… It makes a significant contribution to cultural psychology and to a transdisciplinary approach to the social sciences in general.” • Paul Stenner, Open University
“Liminal Moves is a fascinating exploration of the entanglements between the spatial, symbolic and temporal dimension of different experiences of mobility… Drawing on anthropological theory and cultural psychology, the book advances our critical understanding of the mobility experience making it the center of a transformative process that involves those who stay as well as those who move.” • Fabiola Mancinelli, University of Barcelona
Table of Contents List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. (Im)Mobilities and Liminalities
Chapter 2. The street as Liminal: Itinerant Monkey-training Performances in Japan
Chapter 3. Writing as Liminal: Youths Talking about Migration in Italy
Chapter 4. Waiting as Liminal: Male Accompanying Partners in Switzerland and Beyond
Conclusion: Liminal Moves
References
Index
