1st Edition

Liminal Landscapes Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

Edited By Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts Copyright 2012
264 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these and other mobilities. The ritual, performative and embodied geographies of borderzones, non-places,... Read more

1. Introduction: Re-Mapping Liminality  Part 1: Navigating Liminality: Theory, Method Strategy  2. Revisiting Liminality: The Danger of Empty Spaces  3. Places Remember Events: Towards an Ethics of Encounter  4. Border Crossings: Practices for Beating the Bounds  Part 2: Gleaning and Liminality: Edgelands, Wetlands, Estuaries  5. Walking the Edges: Towards a Visual Ethnography of Beachscapes  6. The Dynamics of Liminality in Estonian Mires  7. The Sands of Dee: Estuarine Excursions in Liminal Space  Part 3: Urban Liminalities: Ritual, Poesis, Experience  8. Spinning Lhasa: Ritual Circumambulation Routes as Liminal Urbanscapes in China’s ‘Western Treasure-House’  9. Urban Exploration as Adventure Tourism: Journeying Beyond the Everyday  10. Another Place or Just Another Space? Liminality and Crosby Beach  Part 4: Liminality and Nation: Marginality, Negotiation, Contestation  11. Shifting Borders and Dangerous Liminalities: The Case of Rye Bay  12. ‘Danger Zones’: The British ‘Road Movie’ and the Liminal Landscape  13. Threat and Suffering: The Liminal Space of ‘The Jungle’  14. Shards in the Landscape: The Dispersed Liminality of Contemporary Slaveries in the UK  15. Afterword

Biography

Hazel Andrews is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism, Culture and Society at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Les Roberts is a research associate in the School of the Arts at University of Liverpool, UK.