Liminality and Experience

Paul Stenner is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. He is author of over 100 articles and several books including, with S.D. Brown, Psychology Without Foundations, and, with Monica Greco, The Emotions: A Social Science Reader. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (until 2019).

“This is an ambitious and challenging text that provokes thought and forces the reader to confront their preconceptions of how we can make sense of the social world.” (Mark Erickson, Sociology, January 08, 2019)“Liminality and Experience develops an approach to thinking that can illuminate the future of psychosocial approaches on producing effects of in/stability. A central concern of Liminality and Experience is the recognition the self is formed and sustained in a wider context of social forces and structures, though is not reducible to that context.” (Robbie Duschinsky and Samantha Reisz, Theory, Culture & Society, theoryculturesociety.org, May 31, 2018)

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Throwing psychosocial studies in at the deep end.- Chapter 2. This is not… the truth: on fabulation.- Chapter 3. This is not… food: on food for thought.- Chapter 4. This is not… a pipe: on the complexity of experience.- Chapter 5. This is not… a shock: on the passage between multiple worlds.- Chapter 6. This is not… a turn to affect: feeling between ontology and anthropology.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.