THE ROLE OF LIMINALITY IN ORGANIZING COLLECTIVE ACTION
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The article describes a study in which we observed a social movement to develop an argument about the role of liminality in organizing collective action. The research revealed that the way liminal experience is created can strongly impact how a social movement develops. Therefore, the process of creating liminal experience in collective action means not simply a transplantation of the “action” virus to new people and places but mainly an organized process of change in response to stimuli from the environment. Data for this project was collected through a two-part phenomenological study of the activities of the All-Poland Women’s Strike. We use this study to propose a new interpretation of the organization of collective action through the concept of liminality, which allows us to propose an new take on how the process of collective action occurs. Therefore, we shed light on new entanglements, actors, and questions regarding how a social movement develops.
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