Communitas and the commons: The open access movement and the dynamics of restructuration in scholarly publishing

In this article, the author reflects on the open access movement as a social and political phenomenon via the lens of Turner's work on liminality and communitas. Moving beyond the neo-liberalization frame, which is the primary way that the transformations in open access have been conceptualized to date, she argues that they are better understood as a product of the hybridizing relationship between structure and anti-structure. This perspective allows us to make sense of the open access movement's seemingly paradoxical qualities, which, the author suggests, point to cultural processes still very much in the subjunctive mood.