The EC hotspot approach in Greece: Creating liminal EU territory by Anna Papoutsi, Joe Painter, Evie Papada, Antonis Vradis

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The price of the popular media is paid by the effluent citizen by Toby Miller

“…Toby Miller examines both ends of the production cycle of media technologies—manufacture and disposal—to demonstrate the interconnected ways that they are physically, economically, environmentally, and politically disabling. He reveals how these modes of disablement collectively produce the liminal status of “effluent citizenship” for poor and despised laborers on the fringes of the global economy upon whom the popular media depend.…”
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Frederick Law Olmsted and the cultural geography of southern slave autonomy by Catherine Armstrong

“…Frederick Law Olmsted’s account of his journeys through the southern states, undertaken from 1852-57 reveals that Olmsted, in whom a sense of place was especially strong, characterised enslaved people’s relative freedom by place, delineating the plantation (even its slave quarters) as the areas of strictest control while liminal spaces at the edge of plantations, as well as roads, rivers, towns, markets and cities represented places of autonomy. …”
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Beyond the exhibition: a vessel for self-reflexive curating in the Mediterranean by Viviana Checchia

“…This thesis is the written result of a practice-based PhD. The thesis presents a ‘located’ model of curatorial practice that aims to actively benefit the cultural landscape of host regions. …”
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