Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus (eBook)

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

Neriko Musha Doerr (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2022
278 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-688-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj A iA ek's notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin's notion of the optical unconscious to offer newer concepts: "e;tinted glasses"e;, through which we see the world; "e;unit-thinking"e;, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and "e;coherants"e;, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible. Examining experiences at a Japanese heritage language school, a study-abroad trip to Sierra Leone, as well as in college classrooms, this book reveals the workings of unit-thinking and fetishism in diverse contexts and explores possibilities for social change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Anthropology (General), Cultural Studies (General), Theory and Methodology • axes of difference • Coherants • Commodity • cultural relativism • Daorba Yduts • exoticization • Fetish • Fetishism • Heritage Language School • Host society • humanitarian work • Linguistic Landscape • Living with Difference project • minority language politics • multi-scalar networks • nation-state ideology • optical unconscious • Phantom Japan • politics of vision • self-transformation • Slavoj Žižek • social change • spectacle pedagogy • Standardization • Study Abroad • Surrealism • tinted glasses • unit-thinking • Vision • Walter Benjamin
• ISBN-10: 1-80073-688-6 / 1800736886
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-688-7 / 9781800736887