This is a call for papers for a panel we are organising at the 
Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future 
conference hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), and 
jointly organised with the British Academy, British Museum, Royal 
Geographical Society (with IBG), and SOAS University of London, 4-7 June 
2020.

We are pleased to invite papers for the panel: ‘EMBODYING LIMINALITY IN 
TRANSITIONAL SPACES’ (Code B01), which is part of the ‘Borders and 
Places’ stream.


Convenors: Les Roberts (University of Liverpool) and Hazel Andrews 
(Liverpool John Moores University)

Please provide a 250 word abstract proposal by 8th January 2020. All 
proposals must be made via the online form that can be found here: 
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#8286

Papers should be around 15-20 minutes in length.

Further details about the conference can be found at: 
https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography


Please see below for panel details:

PANEL B01: EMBODYING LIMINALITY IN TRANSITIONAL SPACES

Short abstract:

The aim of this panel is to explore new and emerging scholarship that 
seeks to draw together work that addresses the transformational 
potential of liminal spaces and the experiential, affective and embodied 
affordances that shape deeper understandings of the spatial 
phenomenology of liminality.

Long abstract:

The aim of this panel is to explore new and emerging scholarship that, 
while steered by foundational anthropological insights into liminality 
and liminal phenomena (Van Gennep 1960; Turner 1967; Shields 1991; 
Thomassen 2009, 2014), has sought to push these ideas into more rigorous 
dialogue with those that speak to questions of space and place. In this 
respect, building on recent work on liminal landscapes and spatial 
anthropology (Andrews and Roberts 2012, 2015; Roberts 2018), the panel 
invites contributors whose research engages with, and is informed by, 
the sociocultural practices and geographies that shape the experiential 
dynamics of liminal spaces. The psychosocial underpinnings that have 
remained a cornerstone of anthropological approaches to liminality 
(especially the work of Victor Turner) have found productive points of 
connection with strands of psychoanalytic theory and practice 
(Schwartz-Salant and Stein 1991), especially that developed by Donald 
Winnicott in his work on transitional objects and spaces, and the 
creative and performative possibilities of culture as 'play' (Winnicott 
1971; Kuhn 2013). This, in turn, recalls Huizinga's (1980 [1938]) 
writings on Homo Ludens which speak to the liberatory and creative 
potential that underwrites what he refers to as the 'play element of 
culture'. Guided by these and related cross-currents of ideas on 
liminality as passage through 'transitional spaces', the panel seeks to 
draw together work that addresses the transformational potential of 
liminal spaces and the experiential, affective and embodied affordances 
that shape deeper understandings of the spatial phenomenology of liminality.

-- 

Les Roberts (Dr)

Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies

Department of Communication and Media

School of the Arts

19 Abercromby Square

University of Liverpool

Liverpool. L69 7ZG. UK

tel: +44 151 794 3102

New book: /Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space/ 
<https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/spatial_anthropology/3-156-debf2849-7e0a-435b-85fd-5e67a047631a>//

www.liminoids.com/ <http://www.liminoids.com/>

www.liv.ac.uk/communication-and-media/staff/les-roberts/ 
<http://www.liv.ac.uk/communication-and-media/staff/les-roberts/>


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