Description: Strange Encounters examines the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community. It challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructed as somebody we already know. In this fascinating new book Saran Ahmed analyses a diverse range of texts which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has alternatively been expelled as the origin of danger - such as in neighbourhood watch or celebrated at the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. However, the author argues that both of these standpoints are problematic as they involve 'stranger fetishism'; they assume that the stranger 'has a life of its own'. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism.
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EAN: 9780415201841
UPC: 9780415201841
ISBN: 9780415201841
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Book Title: Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloni
Item Length: 24.2 cm
Number of Pages: 228 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2000
Subject: Social Sciences, Anthropology
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 499 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Sara Ahmed
Subject Area: Gender Issues
Series: Transformations
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover
