This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality.
Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is …

Pushing postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy
dialogue, this book looks at Russia as a subaltern empire. It demonstrates how the dialectic …

The argument of this paper is that the new foreign policy orientation of Turkey under the AKP
(Justice and Development Party) government is a constitutive component of a new …

This paper argues that the lens of liminality has the potential to enrich scholarship in critical
geopolitics by offering a nuanced approach to the geographies and ambivalence of political …

Liminal spaces are attractive. They are the places we go to in search of a break from the
normal. They can be real places, parts of a larger territory, or they can be imagined or …

This article aims to understand the 'non-Western self'and the different ways its ontological
insecurity can manifest, through the example of Turkey, by contrasting Kemalism's …

In the course of his ethnographic study of the Ndembu tribes, the renowned anthropologist
Victor Turner focused on the elaborate rituals that marked various phases of social …

By problematizing the relationship between geopolitics and foreign policy, this paper
investigates the discursive assumptions of two different geopolitical visions of Turkish …

There is no doubt that digital technologies have an impact on boundary work, that is, the
practices individuals develop to work up boundaries between 'work'and 'life'. However …

This article reviews the ways in which various actors in Turkey have used the terms
'Eurasia'and 'Eurasianism'since theend of the Cold War. It presents two arguments. First …