Baghdad’s thirdspace: Between liminality, anti-structures and territorial mappings

Autor:	Sana Murrani
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Idiosyncrasy Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography 050601 international relations 0506 political science Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Sociology Liminality 050703 geography media_common
Zdroj:	Cultural Dynamics. 28:189-210
ISSN:	1461-7048 0921-3740
DOI:	10.1177/0921374016634378
Popis:	Wedged in-between the dense urban grain of Baghdad, blast walls of t-shaped concrete have littered the streets and neighbourhoods since 2003, after the US led invasion. The idiosyncrasy of these walls lies in their exaggerated spatial liminality. They appear, change location and disappear overnight, and on a daily basis, leaving Iraqis to navigate through labyrinths of in-between spaces. This article critically reveals the new social and power structures that have emerged in the context of the city in response to the condition resulting from this unique urban intervention. This uncanny spatial and social condition of permanent liminality will be analysed through Victor Turner’s critical theories of liminality and anti-structure coupled with Edward Soja’s theory of Thirdspace, interpreting, through a series of territorial mappings, a complex liminal condition in a contested and disrupted city.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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