Citation

Kofoed J, Stenner P. Theory Psychol. 2017; 27(2): 167-182.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0959354317690455

PMID

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Abstract

This article develops a concept of liminal hotspots in the context of (a) a secondary analysis of a cyberbullying case involving a group of school children from a Danish school and (b) an altered auto-ethnography in which the authors "entangle" their own experiences with the case analysis. These two sources are used to build an account of a liminal hotspot conceived as an occasion of troubled and suspended transformative transition in which a liminal phase is extended and remains unresolved. The altered auto-ethnography is used to explore the affectivity at play in liminal hotspots, and this liminal affectivity is characterized in terms of volatility, vacillation, suggestibility, and paradox.

Language: en