A Obra Nasce - Nº 14 (Dez. 2020)

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On walking in derelict urban spaces: experiencing liminality in a city
Publication . Al Shrbaji, Sarah
The article is a bridging of a master dissertation about ‘liminality’ and the forthcoming and ongoing doctorate research about ‘territorial limits’ between frontiers and mobilisation in the contemporary Europe. It is, subsequently, an inauguration of what ‘liminality’ expands to be and become in an urban context, as the author, an immigrant based in a former industrial city, becomes a partial case study. Liminality as a mediator of limits challenges the derelict architecture in a city to be part of a walking passage to marginalize the writer’s discourse along the city’s derelict peripheries. The article, thus, fictionally theorizes and exploits how the omnipresence of dereliction leads to the omnipresence of liminality in a city. Being correlated with architecture and fiction, the article analyses a relational passage of traversing liminality with the city, addressing its intermittence and vagueness. And it, also, suggests what may become out of diverging from the traditional limits, in other words a rhetoric of walking in a liminacity.
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