China at a Threshold

James B Cuffe

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• Once the world's most technologically advanced civilisation, China is poised to yet again take this mantle, having made incredible technological strid... Lees meer

The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology

Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the 'trickster'. A lesser known and muc... Lees meer

Politics with a Human Face

Arvydas Grisinas

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• Politics with a Human Face presents a holistic understanding of identity formation in post-Soviet Europe, arguing that since politics is fundamentally... Lees meer

Political Anthropology as Method

Arpad Szakolczai

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the br... Lees meer

Liminality and the Philosophy of Presence

Franziska Hoppen

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book departs from the attempt by political theory to confront the challenges of political life with new concepts, offering instead a mode of thou... Lees meer

Post-Truth Society

Arpad Szakolczai

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thor... Lees meer

Post-Truth Society

Arpad Szakolczai

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thor... Lees meer

The Spectacle of Critique

Tom Boland

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation an... Lees meer

The Technologisation of the Social

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• In an era of digital revolution, artificial intelligence, big data and augmented reality, technology has shifted from being a tool of communication to... Lees meer

Political Anthropology as Method

Arpad Szakolczai

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the br... Lees meer

Home

Paul O'Connor

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by ... Lees meer

Walking Into the Void

Arpad Szakolczai, Agnes Horvath

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and culture... Lees meer

Permanent Liminality and Modernity

Arpad Szakolczai

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological con... Lees meer

The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America, 1880 - 1930

Cesare Silla

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it... Lees meer

Modern Leaders

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book considers the current striking rise of 'outsider' political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Argui... Lees meer

Art and Enchantment

Patrick Curry

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of encha... Lees meer

Power, Legitimacy and the Public Sphere

Amin Isaloo

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book applies anthropological, sociological and political concepts to the recent history of Iran to explore the role played by ritual theatrical p... Lees meer

Inhabiting Liminal Spaces

Isabella Clough Marinaro

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how dynamics of rule-bending take shape in... Lees meer

Divinization and Technology

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divinization practices, and un... Lees meer

Power, Legitimacy and the Public Sphere

Amin Isaloo

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book applies anthropological, sociological and political concepts to the recent history of Iran to explore the role played by ritual theatrical p... Lees meer

Art and Enchantment

Patrick Curry

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of encha... Lees meer

Permanent Liminality and Modernity

Arpad Szakolczai

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological con... Lees meer

Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social a... Lees meer

Political Alchemy

Agnes Horvath

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Liminality
• This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying ... Lees meer