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Showing 1 to 20 of 411 for “"Liminal"”.
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Liminal Space
Liminal Space is an installation that records time between my son's removal from my life and present day. These pieces are the manifestation of hope and loss; they tell the story of my experience of motherhood. They track time through the repetition of form and have become a physical expression of …
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Creating Liminal Spaces
… search for expression within the painting of the liminal space between the real and the imaginary. This document contains a description of the flexibility of the work to be displayed in various and transient formats. It also discusses how I encourage viewer participation on several levels and can …
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Distil - Liminal Architecture
… for this project considers the concept of liminality of rites of passage as discussed though the work of Arnold van Gennep (1960) and Victor Witter Turner (1979). The Oxford English Dictionary defi nes liminality as being “of or pertaining to the threshold or initial stage of a process” …
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The Liminal Shift
… Malawis image globally. How can these pre-liminal conditions come together as a force that would start scripting the path of progress for Malawi as a nation? This thesis evaluates the current pre-liminal situation in Malawi through the study of its activities, events and culture. It …
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Paradoxical Religious Posture: Occupying the Liminal Space
… I would like to investigate the concept of liminal space, which is the axis of conflict made possible through existing and/or artificial polarities. The discussion will concern the political, cultural and social situations that create the need for attention to the multiplicity of religious …
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Liminal identity in contemporary American television science fiction
… the foregrounding of a particular type of liminal human protagonist in contemporary American television Science Fiction. These protagonists, which I have termed the ‘unliving,’ exist in-between the realms of life and death, simultaneously both alive and dead whilst occupying an indistinct …
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Emile Durkheim: the narrative of a liminal subject
… identity and this narrative to incur a state of liminality (Van Gennep, Turner) while more modern western biographies on Durkheim activated these to experience a state of permanent liminality (Szakolczai, 2009). To support these efforts, the concepts of liminality and permanent liminality are …
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Liminal Perspective: Still-Life and Interactive 3D Animation
Liminal Perspective refers to an alternative theoretical framework for understanding the interpretation of pictorial space in visual art when influenced by new technologies. Creating the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface has relied on the theory of linear perspective created in the …
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Nursing on the edge: nursing identity in liminal spaces
… education from the NHS. Drawing on theories of liminality and Michael Lipsky’s Street Level Bureaucracy, the statement proposes innovative approaches to raising the profile of nursing, beyond a liminal position. The public works are produced from liminal spaces in clinical practice to the …
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Cyborg Butterflies, Liminal Medicine: Thyroid Hormone Treatment, 1890-1970
In this thesis, I develop a history of thyroid hormone treatment (THT) that centers on the bodies of animals and women between 1890 and 1970. This history contextualizes the current debate between two forms of THT, desiccated and synthetic. Drawing on the discourses present in biomedical journals, …
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NAVIGATING THE LIMINAL ZONE: Designing Future-Oriented Educational Environments
… will transcend traditional structures, embracing liminal zones that facilitate seamless transitions into professional or higher education spheres. In the dynamic landscape of 21st-century education, the convergence of technology, globalization, and evolving pedagogical paradigms presents both …
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Liminal blankness : mixing race and space in monochrome's psychic surface
… the psychic structure of monochrome's liminal blankness is homologous to the indeterminate Mixed Race subject, whose body transgresses not only the foundational historical binarism of `Black/White', but also Lacanian psychoanalysis. This thesis aims to concentrate on exploring blank …
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The Liminal South : Explorations of Black Time, Space, and Memory
<p>This project is composed of two analytical essays and a three-dimensional art exhibition that tangibly extract and display the ways I view the U.S. American south and my interactions with it. Inspired by the narrative photography of Carrie Mae Weems and her “Kitchen Table Series,” the project …
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Between binaries, borders and boundaries: counselling psychology in liminal spaces
… avoiding their associated stigmas. This liminal position of ‘nervous breakdown’ and its consequences are discussed.
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Liminal heritage and political transition in Burma/Myanmar since 1824
… for transferring the paradigm of contemporary liminality from political anthropology into heritage studies. Contemporary political anthropologists have adapted liminality’s ritual structure to wholesale experiences such as war, revolution, and transition, to understand these phenomena at the …
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Earth. Water. Sky. The Liminal Landscape of the Maya Sweatbath
… the structure as a replica of the cosmos, the liminal landscape tethering together water, topography, and the celestial domain, and rituals of purification, healing, and transformation. In addition, the ancient Maya site of Yaxchiln and its three sweatbaths serves as the epicenter, the …
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Māori wards in Tauranga Moana and Aotearoa: Liminal local government democracy
… chapters are framed around three key aspects of liminality; the in-between positioning of Māori wards reflecting a time of change; this liminal space being a time where unease and discomfort is experienced by some as Indigenous disparity is addressed; and the threshold positioning of Māori wards …
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Musicking in the liminal Space between Community Music and Music Education
… and social justice as connection points in the liminal space between community music (CM) and music education (MusEd). Musicking encapsulates active human involvement in music-making opportunities (Odendaal, Kankkunen, Nikkanen & Vakeva, 2014:165-168). Therefore, musicking has a distinct …
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Satire's Liminal Space: The Conservative Function of Eighteenth-Century Satiric Drama
… audience through Victor Turner's stages of liminality. Turner explains the different ways in which specific genres of theatre (1) create a performance space that is apart from, but still draws symbolically on, the outside world, (2) invite the participation of their audiences in that space, …
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