Transformative Service Research (TSR) highlights the fundamental importance of resource integration for consumer well-being. However, recent research suggests that resource integration can be ...problematic and imperfect, particularly for vulnerable consumers with complex and ongoing resource requirements. Such vulnerable consumers may face transition challenges and end up in an uncertain “in-between” experience of liminality, where the linkage to resource integration remains under-researched. In response to recent service prioritization challenges, we explore how vulnerable actors experience liminality and resource integration in service systems. The vulnerable actors highlighted in this study are parents in families of children with life-long conditions (e.g., autism spectrum disorder/ASD and Down syndrome). We reveal a new form of liminality as a persistent, relational phenomenon that interdependent vulnerable actors with ongoing complex resource needs collectively experienced within service systems. Further, we identify the dynamics of persistent liminality as Precipitating, Subsisting, and Resisting. Finally, in line with TSR, we shed light on the resource constraints that decrease the well-being of vulnerable consumers. We also identify implications for theory, practice, and future research.
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This introduction offers a brief and poetic introduction to historical uses of liminality. It also explains how authors in this special issue were tasked with thinking of liminalities as ...multiplicities or twisted liminalities. This means liminalities is not simply a rite-of-passage, but crosses time-spaces and can be a site of resistance within the contemporary moment. Also, liminalities can be an ontological position that challenges entrenched modes of conducting research. We encouraged authors to consider the concept of liminalities within the field of critical qualitative inquiry.
Adult education and belonging Alexis Oviedo; Karem Roitman
European journal for research on the education and learning of adults,
10/2023, Volume:
14, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Access to education is a matter of individual and communal justice and development. However, simple access to education, and simple inclusion as often noted in DEI, fail to capture the structures of ...power and inequality that limit the potential of education. It is not enough to be in education, we must aim for an education adult students can belong to. This requires that we re-conceptualize belonging as complex, non-binary, and multifaceted, acknowledging the struggles of our adult students to participate in education. For this re-conceptualization, we call upon theories of liminal belonging, in particular Anzaldúa's idea of mestiza consciousness. We use adult education students in Ecuador as a case study to reflect on the gender and identity struggles to belong and conclude with some recommendations of how pedagogy and institutions can be adapted to foster belonging for adult learners.
Abstract Settlers of colour occupy a liminal space in the settler colony of Australia, and this liminality was exacerbated during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Through the literature on digital activism, ...technological immersion, and placemaking, this paper explores Radical Placemaking as a route for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people based in Brisbane to stake their right to the city through alternative digitised modalities. Three projects using situated digital stories were created: (i) the Chatty Bench Project; (ii) the TransHuman Saunter Project; and (iii) Chatty Bench Festival Community Media Visual Projections. We analysed the experiences of study participants creating the digital stories and eventual user experiences of the stories for their ability to provoke self‐reflection, immersiveness, and belonging through evocation and representation of lived experiences. The paper suggests that radical placemaking offers CALD communities subversive tactics of occupying space through emerging technologies without engaging in erasure of existing histories of place.
ಬಿಳಿಯೇತರರು ಅಥವಾ ವರ್ಣೀಯರು ತಾವು ನೆಲೆಸಿರುವ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾದ ಕಾಲೊನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಭೌತಿಕ ಹಾಗೂ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಅನಿಶ್ಚಿತತೆಯ ಸೀಮಿತ ಪ್ರದೇಶವೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸವಾಗಿರುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಈ ಅನಿಶ್ಚಿತ ಇತಿಮಿತಿಗಳ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿಯು ಕವಿಡ್‐19 ಎಂಬ ಮಹಾಮಾರಿ ಬಂದೆರಗಿದ ಕಾಲಘಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಲ್ಬಣಾವಸ್ಥೆಗೆ ತಲುಪಿತು. ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್ ಕ್ರಿಯಾಶೀಲತೆ, ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಮಗ್ನತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ಲೇಸ್ ಮೇಕಿಂಗ್ ತಿಳಿವಳಿಕೆಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕವಾಗಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಭಾಷಾಶಾಸ್ತ್ರೀಯವಾಗಿ ವಿಭಿನ್ನವಾಗಿರುವ (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities CALD) ಬ್ರಿಸ್ಬೇನ್ ಮೂಲದ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಡಿಜಿಟೈಸ್ ಮಾಡಲಾದ ಪರ್ಯಾಯ ವಿಧಾನಗಳನ್ನನುಸರಿಸಿ ತಾವಿರುವ ನಗರದ ಮೇಲೆ ಹಕ್ಕುಸ್ಥಾಪನೆ ಮಾಡಲು ರ್ಯಾಡಿಕಲ್ ಪ್ಲೇಸ್ ಮೇಕಿಂಗ್ ಒಂದು ರಹದಾರಿಯಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ಈ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಪ್ರಬಂಧವು ಅನ್ವೇಷಿಸಿ ಹೇಳಿದೆ. ಅಸ್ತಿತ್ವದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್ ವಸ್ತುವಿಷಯಗಳನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಮೂರುಯಜನೆಗಳನ್ನು ರೂಪಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು: 1. ದ ಚ್ಯಾಟಿ ಬೆಂಚ್ ಪ್ರೊಜೆಕ್ಟ್ 2. ಟ್ರಾನ್ಸ್ ಹ್ಯೂಮನ್ ಸಾಂಟರ್, ಮತ್ತು 3. ದ ಚ್ಯಾಟಿ ಬೆಂಚ್ ಕಮ್ಯೂನಿಟಿ ಮೀಡಿಯಾ ವಿಷುವಲ್ ಪ್ರೊಜೆಕ್ಷನ್ಸ್. ಜೀವಂತ ಅನುಭವಗಳ ಪ್ರೇರಣೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರಾತಿನಿಧ್ಯದ ಮುಖಾಂತರ ಆತ್ಮಚಿಂತನೆ, ತಲ್ಲೀನತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸೇರುವಿಕೆಯ ಭಾವವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಚದಿಸುವ ಅವರ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯಕ್ಕಾಗಿ, ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್ ಕಥಾನಕಗಳನ್ನು ಹಾಗೂ ತಥಾಕಥಿತ ಅಂತಿಮ ಬಳಕೆದಾರ ಅನುಭವಗಳನ್ನು ಆಧರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ಅಧ್ಯಯನದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗಿಗಳಾದವರ ಅನುಭವಗಳನ್ನು ನಾವು ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸಿದೆವು. ಪ್ರಸಕ್ತ ಅಸ್ತಿತ್ವದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ಸಂಗತಿಗಳನ್ನು ಅಳಿಸಿ ಹಾಕುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ತೊಡಗಿಕೊಳ್ಳದೆ ಹೊಸದಾಗಿ ಮುನ್ನೆಲೆಗೆ ಬರುವ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನಗಳ ಮುಖೇನ ಜಾಗವನ್ನು ಆಕ್ರಮಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ವಿಧ್ವಂಸಕ ತಂತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ರ್ಯಾಡಿಕಲ್ ಪ್ಲೇಸ್ ಮೇಕಿಂಗ್ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕವಾಗಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಭಾಷಾಶಾಸ್ತ್ರೀಯವಾಗಿ ವಿಭಿನ್ನವಾಗಿರುವ (CALD) ಸಮುದಾಯಗಳಿಗೆ ಒದಗಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬುದಾಗಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಪ್ರಬಂಧವು ಹೇಳುತ್ತದೆ.
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Spain's berry industry relies on the agricultural labour of both local and seasonal migrant workers. A significant part of this migrant workforce comprises Moroccan mothers who leave their ...children with relatives in order to perform this wage labour. The bilateral recruitment regime favours the employment of Moroccan women with children for this labour to ensure that workers return home at the end of the harvesting season. Drawing on multi‐site ethnographic research in Spain and Morocco, this study revealed the effects of this bilateral labour regime on the intimate lives of migrant workers. We argue that the geopolitical prescriptions of this labour migration regime, along with the working and living conditions of migrant workers in Huelva, result in experiences of intimate liminality. We examined these experiences by exploring: (1) how the role of female workers as mothers becomes liminal as transnational labour agreements marginalise and outsource care obligations, (2) how governmental neglect of migrant workers' occupational health exposes them to reproductive health risks and (3) how this neglect places them in a liminal space in terms of access to healthcare, and (4) how, despite their liminality, migrant workers contest precarious conditions through everyday solidarity practices. We advance a feminist approach to liminality, emphasising the importance of an embodied, intersectional, and multiscalar perspective.
Armed Forces Day is a military-centric event in the UK introduced into the public calendar during 2009 following recommendations made from The Report of Inquiry into National Recognition of Our Armed ...Forces. Despite the significance of these events requiring the situating and performance of military values, personnel, equipment and activities within otherwise civic spaces, academic research and critical commentary into the implementation and development of Armed Forces Day is limited. Influenced by autoethnographic work from critical human geography focussing on the materiality, spatiality and embodied experiences of military airshows, and seeking to extend some insights from the original text Military Geographies, the aim of this paper is to observe the situatedness and performance of Armed Forces Day to be what is defined herein as 'liminal military landscape'. Through conducting a small-scale study of Armed Forces Day 2017 in Liverpool, employing observational techniques including notetaking and documentary photography, during this event urban space was found to undergo spatial 'transitions'; have 'portals' opened through which temporality and materiality invoked past experience into the present; and create newly established liminal 'thresholds' waiting to be crossed between the seemingly contiguous spaces of civic and military.
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This paper critically examines the liminal geographies of the United Kingdom's 7,000‐mile canal and river network, embodying a thread of complex intersections and interactions between water ...and land. Drawing on a study involving stakeholder interviews, group discussion with canal users, and observational walks in Manchester and London, the paper explores the concepts of liminal flux, scalar intersections, and deliminalisation. We first outline how the UK's urban canals are characterised by liminal flux over time and space, reflecting their dynamic geographies. Revealing the presence of critical intersections between liminality and scale, we then focus on the ongoing and everyday spatial and territorial entanglements between different canal and towpath users. Finally, we consider the challenge of deliminalisation, and an associated shift from liminality and in‐betweenness towards greater spatial fixity via neoliberal intervention and development. Our findings highlight the importance of preserving the unique characteristics of urban canals as liminal spaces, arguing that they provide recreational opportunities and contribute to urban wellbeing by providing opportunities for ‘transitory dwelling places’. Maintaining a liminal balance within urban canal environments is therefore crucial and requires careful curation. In turn, this notion of curating liminal balance has implications for other potential waterfront developments that offer a similar positive potential for hydrocitizenship and its fluid ambiguities of in‐betweenness. Moreover, it demonstrates the importance of a ‘lighter touch’ of redevelopment and governance in some parts of the urban environment to help preserve, or even enhance, citizen wellbeing.
Despite the predominant policy focus on event economic impact, event organisers and host community residents are calling for attention to be paid to the social value of events. Anthropological work ...on events demonstrates that their celebratory nature engenders a liminoid space that can foster social value, particularly through a sense of communitas. In order to enable and amplify liminality and communitas, event organisers and host community planners should foster social interaction and prompt a feeling of celebration by enabling sociability among event visitors, creating event-related social events, facilitating informal social opportunities, producing ancillary events, and theming widely. The resulting narratives, symbols, meanings, and affect can then be leveraged to address social issues, build networks, and empower community action. These may be furthered when the arts are used to complement sport, and when commercial elements support social leverage. Future research should explore and examine the strategic and tactical bases for social leverage.
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