Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of “liminality” as a space of “in-between-ness” that avoids either essentialism or stasis, as well as the role of interstitiality in delineating between space and place.
The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, film, media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, and tourism studies.
Liminal States: Landscapes of Scarcity and Excess
The book should be a useful reader to tourism geography where the theory of liminality can be synthesized into tourist experiences. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.
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Liminal Landscapes: Beyond the Concepts of "marginality" and "periphery"
... liminality draws these chapters into an intense series of inter-related debates. Across this book a number of very different situations, liminal landscapes, are critically engaged and considered. Some of our chapters examine and wrestle ...
Dividing the book into two parts, Tilley first explores the prehistoric landscape from the Mesolithic to the end of the Iron Age, and follows with an analysis of the same landscape from the eighteenth into the twenty-first century.
In the third Liminal Novel Taggert's adopted daughter disappears so he only has one option: find her.
This volume explores the conceptual "topography" of landscape: It examines the character of landscape as itself a mode of place as well as the modes of place that appear in relation to landscape.
Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power.