Sifting through transition

Revisiting ‘rites of passage"

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  • Willem Salet University of Amsterdam

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https://doi.org/10.24306/TrAESOP.2018.01.001

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Planning research frequently deals with issues of transition. Transition is defined here broadly as the change of social and spatial state from the one position into another. In planning theory and urban studies, there are many attempts to conceptualise such processes of change (material theories, evolutionary approaches, pragmatic perspectives, and so on). This paper traces some classic sources of functional anthropology and cultural sociology, focusing particularly on the meaning of the ‘rite of passage’. This line of reasoning contemplates transition as a pattern of cultural change of social order, and deals both with the structural and the process oriented aspects of transition. The paper builds upon the pivotal work of the French anthropologist Arnold van Gennep and the further explorations of Victor Turner as well as present-day interpretations.

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Salet, W. (2018). Sifting through transition: Revisiting ‘rites of passage". Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 2(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.24306/TrAESOP.2018.01.001

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01-06-2018

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Volume 2 / Issue 1 / June 2018

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