Breaking Boundaries

"Breaking Boundaries is valuable for both its content and the expectation that the hegemonic conceptions of politics might be modified." ⢠Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"The book [is] highly recommendable for its theoretical perspectives and for offering a rich dialogue between anthropology and other social sciences." ⢠Anthropology Notebooks

"In well integrated chapters, the [volume] proves the relevance of the concept across disciplines, particularly for the study of moments of instability and possibility, as well as for understanding the transformative potential of participation... In addition to helping one understand in-between experiences overall, [it] invites the reader to rethink the complicated relation between individual agency, social order and cultural transmission... a remarkable contribution to sociology, anthropology and critical theory." ⢠European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

"A topic with a very broad appeal, namely liminality, [is] treated here as an analytical concept. While liminality has been a widespread concept in anthropology and social theory for decades, largely owing to Victor Turner's seminal work, it has rarely been scrutinized properly, and this volume is to be welcomed. In some ways, this kind of book is long overdue." ⢠Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo

"The book is a timely intervention which secures firmer grounding for liminality as one of the key concepts in social theory... Theoretically strong, and with an empirical range that takes in pre- and post-Revolutionary France, the frontier building of the American West, Egypt's Tahrir Square, and the liminality of the postcommunist Eastern bloc, the book provides a valuable contribution to debates on liminality, transformation, and contingency in the social and political world." ⢠Les Roberts, University of Liverpool