Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality (Transformations S.)

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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Book Title: Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloni

Item Length: 23.6 cm

Number of Pages: 224 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: 340 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Sara Ahmed

Subject Area: Gender Issues

Item Width: 156 mm

Format: Paperback