Extra-Liminality: Anthropological Insights into Resilience and Adaptation in Hostile Sociopolitical and Digital Environments

This study identifies a new emerging phenomenon centered on non-dominant narratives: extra-liminality. Traditionally, liminality refers to a transition between two states of being, but extra-liminality occurs when this state becomes persistent, shaping reality. This study utilizes decolonial methodologies, digital ethnography, auto-ethnography, and story as methodology to capture the lived experience of extra-liminality. These methodologies are essential to allow immersive experiential engagement and, as such, are both radical and experimental in their form. This also serves to resist historically damaging or extractive research methodologies within non-dominant narratives. Through the lens of non-dominant narratives, parallels begin to form between terrestrial and extraterrestrial adaptive strategies. By drawing on existing knowledge in anthropology, psychology, and digital ethnography, this interdisciplinary study serves as both an emerging theoretical framework and the foundation of a broader research agenda in space anthropology. This study focuses on resilience and adaptation in non-dominant narratives and extreme environments, whether sociopolitical or environmental.