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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Liminal experience"”.
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Flirting as a Liminal Experience: A Dialogue between a Philosophical-Phenomenological Understanding of Liminality and an Empirical-Existential Study of Flirting
… I bring out concealed aspects of the lived experience of flirting by studying it neither as a subjective act nor as an objective behavior, but as a liminal event. Liminality is an anthropological concept that designates a realm of experience that falls outside identity and mutually exclusive …
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ECSTASIES OF RITUAL, DISRUPTIONS OF MODERNITY: DREAMS AS LIMINAL AGENTS OF RE-ORDER
… of (re)order during both epochal and daily liminal phases of life. Further, it attempts to describe dreaming as psychologically vital for mediating experience through the cognitive process of schematization while making the claim that Western postmodernity’s rejection of dream ideology and …
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Towards Digital Liminality : computational tools for 'beyond average' creative thinking
… in the design process; an often ambiguous and liminal experience where new information is explored and considered in non-obvious ways to reveal unexpected associations. 'Intelligent' digital technologies such as machine learning are increasingly employed in tools used in the early phases of the …
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Death and renewal : a process of growth through loss
Moore (1994) suggests that a liminal experience can take us from an often divided sense of self and connect us with our own heroic stories. This longitudinal study traces nine journeys of renewal described through experiences of loss. Loss in this context is not limited to actual death but is …
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Threshold moves : a ritual poetry practice
… way readers, listeners and poetry practitioners experience the material world. In the liminal experience which ritual poetry opens up, a poet-ritualist becomes sensitised and newly aware of their embodied ecologies and relationships, so that emergence and poesis are possible. This thesis is a …
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The barzakh and the bardo: challenges to religious violence in Sufism and Vajrayana Buddhism
… religious allegiance. Identity construction is liminal and, as such, experiential. Hence, this study applies the analytical lens of liminality to explore possible understandings of religious violence. Taking the position that liminal passages are natural and unavoidable aspects of lived …
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Imprisonment of the Human Body: Reforming the system & lives through architecture [using Pollsmoor]
… 2019). A prison visitors centre presents the liminal space where family and community relationships are maintained and strengthened. Visiting an inmate in Pollsmoor is however, not a liminal experience because there is no defined separate visitors' centre. Families with young children cross …
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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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The experience of work and workplace disclosure for women living with the effects of intimate partner abuse
… theory (SDT), this research explores the experience of work for women living with the effects of IP Abuse and begins to bridge the existing gap.<br/>Methods<br/>Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven women living with the effects of IP Abuse to understand their experiences of …
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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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FROM "NO WAY" TO "EVERY DAY" –How Liminal Phase Shapes Medication Adherence in Chronic Disease
This doctoral dissertation investigates how the liminal phase impacts medication adherence among chronic disease patients. The study is grounded in the concept of liminality, which denotes the transitional state, and explores its application in the context of chronic health conditions. The research …
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Queering the Black Country: a critical and creative response
… and practice – between the post-industrial liminality of the region and queer identity or experience; and, in what ways might a close analysis of contemporary Black Country fiction function as an enabling or energising factor in the production of a new creative work about the region? Using …