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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Liminal Space"”.
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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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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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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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Beyond the frame : a liminal space in contemporary South African photography
Anthropologists and ethnographers documenting the African subject – as soldiers of the colonial enterprise, dominated early practices of photography in Africa. These endeavors manufactured a visual narrative that was uniform in its approach to Africa's landscape, which largely persists in the …
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The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics
… to show that dream narratives provide a safe space for both artists and readers. I argue that dream narration in comics is not only an artistic exploration of the unconscious but also a collaborative meaning-making that evolves across social context. </strong></p>
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Contemporary Art and the Liminal Space: Refuge for the Divine in an Empirical World?
… art and utilises this notion in the idea of liminality, which is defined as a transitory rite of passage between different states of self. Since the liminal is a fundamentally ambiguous and uncertain experience, this research frames its argument in the idea that a perception of the divine has …
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Hippopotami in a liminal space: a multi-species ethnography of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura
This thesis explores how human encroachment has significantly altered Lake Tanganyika's freshwater ecosystem and riparian zone in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi, which affects the daily life and interactions between humans and hippopotami (hippo). Societal development agendas have favoured …
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Islam, Modernity, and the Liminal Space Between: A Vertical Case Study of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture, Amman, Jordan
… and the role of the anthropological concept of liminality in the clarification of students' values during the academic program.</p> <p>The research included a three week initial study trip to Amman in May, 2011, followed by a four week visit in September of 2011. Data for the study came from …
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Imagination at the progressive border: can fantasy literature foster a liminal space for social justice-oriented narrative-based belief change in the individual?
… therefore, examines how fantasy novels create a space for readers to reflect and imagine. By getting lost in these stories and encountering new ways of thinking, fantasy readers can challenge their existing beliefs and imagine new possibilities for themselves and the world. This research explores …
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The Meeting of Two Minds in the Intermediate State: The Art Therapist as a Guide in the In-Between, Immersed and Assisted by Contemplative and Transpersonal Theory
… primary goal of this research was to explore the space which arises between the art therapist and the client’s minds when working in a “we” state of togetherness. Six professional art therapists who had experience with the liminal space were interviewed about their lived experience. From the …
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Dirt Work
… after Norse gods, the other four being labeled "liminal space." Each named section deals with a specific person or relationship, while the liminal space sections are more generalized. Themes present include voice, loss of voice, feminism, queer theory, mythology, rural life, Appalachian identity, …
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Cities Beyond
Cities Beyond is a collection of poems about the liminal space between the suburbs and the pasture as metaphor for the created space of memory, self, and location.
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Sandcastles in the Sand: Liminality at the Seashore in Carolyn Wells's Marjorie at Seacote
… at Seacote</em> depicts how the beach as a liminal space destabilizes the traditional adult and child roles and creates discomfon and ambivalence over these new roles. I first discuss Carolyn Wells and <em>Marjorie at Seacote</em> in terms of historical context and within the framework of …
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The Importance of Place: A practice-led investigation into the liminal space between artist-doctor and patient-artist, in the process of making art and recovery in the House of Artists and the Gugging Atelier, at Maria Gugging in Austria
This thesis focuses on art, mental illness and recovery within the innovative model of therapeutic healthcare in the Gugging House of Artists, a small-scale psychiatric facility in Austria. Gugging’s 12 Residents live together as self-taught artists in a system of holistic processes, transformative …
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Four Phases of Subjectivity: A Rhetorical and Phenomenological Analysis of Aimé Césaire And Cahier D’un Retour Au Pays Natal
… its self-appointed European center, to create a liminal space for the totalized and autonomous development of human subjectivity, and to reconceptualize understandings of humanism in an effort to create space for a future that is rich in its particularity—in this case the particularity of human …
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Illuminating liminal spaces : a phenomenological investigation of Hispanic students' first-year experiences at a four-year university with prior dual credits
… dual credit program. These students occupy a liminal space because they are classified as first-time freshmen but hold enough college credit hours to be considered a sophomore or junior. Through this study, I explored how these students experienced living in this liminal space. Nora’s (2006) …
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Sent to Coventry: the role played by social networks in the settlement of dispersed Congolese asylum seekers
… of asylum policies and their implementation, a liminal space emerges which asylum seekers are forced to inhabit while awaiting a decision on their asylum claim. This research is based on a framework that identifies how UK asylum policy shapes this liminal space and its relationship to the …
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Canadian feminist women directors : using the canon for social change
… text from the Western theatre canon and used the liminal space of performance to challenge the text’s embedded gender constructs. At the end of each chapter, I present the critical response I found for each production, including reviews, individual statements, and academic investigations, and …
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An exploration of therapists' experiences of working with terminal cancer patients
… into therapists’ experiences of working in this space. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six qualified, experienced therapists (range 7 to 26 years’ experience). All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Three …
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