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liminal space [definition]

Psychologists call \"liminal space,\" a place where boundaries dissolve a little and we stand there, on the threshold, getting ourselves ready to move across the limits of what we were into what we are to be.Building on Mircea Eliade\'s concept of division of human experience in sacred and the profane, Victor Turner introduced the concept of \'liminal space\': a space of transformation between phases of separation and reincorporation. It represents a period of ambiguity, of marginal and transitional state. Similarly does Arnold van Gennep, while describing rituals of transition. For Gennep, liminal or threshold world is a space between the world of status that the person is leaving and the world of status into which the person is being inducted. In post-colonial studies, for Edward Said, but especially for Homi Bhabha, the liminality is important as a category strongly related to the concept of cultural hybridity. For Bhabha, liminal as an interstitial passage between fixed identifications represents a possibility for a cultural hybridity that entertains difference without an assumed or imposed hierarchy. The concept of liminality as a quality of \"in-between\" space and/or state is of the outmost importance in describing some of the most interesting and highly specific social and cultural phenomena: the transcultural space, the transgeographical space, the transgender space etc. Sharon Zukin tranferred the term in urban studies, saying that liminal space is a growing caracter of contemporary city: she argues that the localism, or neghbourhood urbanism, of the modern city has been transformed into postmodern transitional space. This space is \'betwixt and between\' economic institutions but is best described by the adjective liminal because it \'complicates the effort to construct identtiy\' Liminal spaces are ambiguous and ambivalent, they slip between global market and local place, between public use and private value, between work and home, between commerce and culture.

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