Liminality and Critical Event Studies

Dr. Ian R. Lamond is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University (UK). His work focuses on critical approaches to understanding events. His interests include events of protest and dissent, the eventalisation of the political, the commodification of death, cult fiction fandom, and graphic storytelling. His other works include two edited collections and two co-authored monographs.Dr. Jonathan Moss is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University (UK). His PhD dissertation used phenomenological psychology to situate music festival experiences in the ideographic Lifeworld of the attendees. He is currently writing two papers: one regarding the use of descriptive experience sampling methods in event studies, and the other considering how neurophenomenology contributes to our understanding of collective and shared emotions.ContributorsPeter Vlachos, University of GreenwichAshley Garlick, University of West LondonNaz Ali, University of East LondonBarbara Grabher, Independent ScholarSeth Kirby, Anglia Ruskin UniversityMike Duignan, Anglia Ruskin UniversityAngela Wichmann, Fresenius University of Applied SciencesAndrea Pavoni, University of WestminsterSamuel B. Bernstein, University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleZachary T. Smith, University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleJeffrey Montez de Oca, University of ColoradoGeoff Holloway, Independent ScholarSebastiano Citroni, Universita’ Degli Studi di MilanoGianmarco Navarini, Universita’ Degli Studi di MilanoRasul A. Mowatt, Indiana UniversityRuxandra Gubernat, Universite Paris NanterreHenry P. Rammelt, National University of Political Science and Public AdministrationSusan Ashley, Northumbria UniversityRounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso, SOAS – University of London

• 1. Introduction.- 2.What is liminality in critical event studies research?.- 3. Liminality, subjectivity and aesthetics in event management studies.- 4. Liminality and event design: liminal space design for sports events.- 5. The privilege of subversion: Reading experiences of LGBT-themed events during Hull UK City of Culture 2017 through liminality.- 6. Searching for sites of liminality in ‘giga’ events.- 7. From everyday life into the liminoid and back again: Transportation processes in the case of the World Gymnastics for All event (the Gymnaestrada).- 8. Experiencing abstraction. On mega events, liminality and resistance.- 9. ‘Sit in the shadows’: The Black body as American event.- 10. Double liminality: Fado events and tourism.- 11. Liminality and ritual order: Italy’s national elections of 2018.- 12. Events of dissent, events of the self: The liminality of protest images.- 13. Liminality and activism. Conceptualising non-conventional political participation in Romania.- 14. Crowds, Events, Eaction: Liminal Politics at the Chattri Memorial (Events, heritage and the Chattri Memorial).- 15. Egyptian revolutionary art through a liminal framework.