As a continuation of the panel held at EASA 2024, “Doing and Undoing Liminality: Crisis, Marginality, and Power in Mediterranean Anthropology,” from 11 to 13 June, we have the pleasure of gathering in Ifrane, Morocco, for a follow-up workshop. The workshop brings together researchers working across the Mediterranean to explore how dynamics of crisis, marginality, and power unfold in the region’s shifting landscapes.

The workshop develops the concept of “doing and undoing liminality” as both a theoretical lens and an empirical framework. Discussions focus on how the Mediterranean—understood simultaneously as a meeting point and a deadly border zone—shapes and is shaped by forced migration, violent border regimes, ecological degradation, and polarized debates on religion, race, and ethnicity. Participants examined how these processes disenfranchise social formations while also generating spaces for agency, resistance, and transformation.

Contributions explore fragmented Mediterranean topographies, emphasizing how both centralized and diffuse power networks control, connect, and divide people and environments. Engaging with key anthropological theories, the workshop foregrounds liminality as a productive and critical concept to understand how margins are made, lived, and contested—through transgressions, inversions, interferences, and ambiguities.