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One productive way to comprehend social change is to explore how significant individual transformation can be extrapolated and scaled to the collective level. Relatedly, the concept of liminal spaces (Horvath et al., in Thomassen et al. Wydra (eds), Breaking boundaries: Varieties of liminality, Berghahn Books, 2015) highlights personal transformation as moving through a series of transitions from place to place. We demonstrate this argument by applying autoethnographic reflexivity to the authors’ separate and shared experiences when writing (the first-named author) and supervising (the second-named author) the first-named author’s first doctoral thesis (Mulligan in “Time to find a new freedom”: TOMNET and Men’s Sheds—Meeting older men’s contributive needs in regions within South East and South West Queensland, Australia [Doctoral dissertation], University of Southern Queensland, 2018). We structure the discussion around a series of critical incidents that illustrated why, how and with which effects we moved individually and collectively through specific liminal spaces related to doctoral study and supervision to reach a substantially new and unanticipated place for both of us.

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Moving through Liminal Spaces from Individual Transformation to Social Change: Revisiting a Doctoral Study–Supervision Collaboration via Autoethnographic Reflexivity

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    2025年

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  • Deborah L. Mulligan,
  • Patrick Alan Danaher

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One productive way to comprehend social change is to explore how significant individual transformation can be extrapolated and scaled to the collective level. Relatedly, the concept of liminal spaces (Horvath et al., in Thomassen et al. Wydra (eds), Breaking boundaries: Varieties of liminality, Berghahn Books, 2015) highlights personal transformation as moving through a series of transitions from place to place. We demonstrate this argument by applying autoethnographic reflexivity to the authors’ separate and shared experiences when writing (the first-named author) and supervising (the second-named author) the first-named author’s first doctoral thesis (Mulligan in “Time to find a new freedom”: TOMNET and Men’s Sheds—Meeting older men’s contributive needs in regions within South East and South West Queensland, Australia [Doctoral dissertation], University of Southern Queensland, 2018). We structure the discussion around a series of critical incidents that illustrated why, how and with which effects we moved individually and collectively through specific liminal spaces related to doctoral study and supervision to reach a substantially new and unanticipated place for both of us.