Liminality and Critical Event Studies: Borders, Boundaries, and Contestation

Part I.1. Subjectivity and aesthetics in events management studies; P. Vlachos2. Liminality and event design: Implications for event professionals; A. Garlick and Nazia Ali3. The problem of the liminal norm; R. Finkel and L. PlattPart II.4. Flash, bang, pop-up. Liminoid spaces and fringe events participation; C. Laws5. Deeper engagement: Using liminality to enhance audience experience at arts festivals in Australia; J. Mackellar6. U2's '360' tour: A liminal experience of communal enchantment; M. Williams7. If you can't tell does it matter? Uncanny liminality and the pursuit of purpose in HBO's 'Westworld'; R. JonesPart III.8. Searching for sites of liminality in 'giga-events'; M. Duignan and S. Kirby9. From ordinary life into the liminoid and back again; A. Wichmann10. Experiencing abstraction: Protest, event and liminality at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; A.Pavoni11. Sit in the shadows: The Black body as American event; Z. Smith and S.B. BernsteinPart IV.12. Liminality and ritual order: What is at stake in public political events?; S. Citroni and G. Navarini13. Events of dissent. Events of the self: The liminality of selfies at protests as digital activism; R. Mowatt14. Liminality and activism: Conceptualising political participation in Eastern Europe; H. Rammelt and R. Gubernat15. Crowds, events and 'acts' of citizenship: Liminal politics at the Chattri Memorial; S. Ashley16. Understanding Egyptian revolutionary art within a liminality framework; R. Bseiso