Sara Ahmed

Strange Encounters (eBook, ePUB)

Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. 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.

A diverse range of texts are analyzed 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 as the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. 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'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135120115
• Artikelnr.: 38258278

Autorenporträt

Sara Ahmed is a lecturer in the Institute of Women's Studies, Lancaster University. She is currently Co-Director of the Institute with Jackie Stacey.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Stranger Fetishism and Post-Coloniality 2. Recognising
Strangers 3. Knowing Strangers 4. Embodying Strangers 5. Home and Away:
Narratives of Migration and Estrangement 6. Multiculturalism and the
Proximity of Strangers 7. Going Strange, Going Native 8. Ethical
Encounters: The Other, Others and Strangers 9. Close Encounters: Feminism
and/in 'The Globe' 10. References

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1. Introduction: Stranger Fetishism and Post-Coloniality 2. Recognising Strangers 3. Knowing Strangers 4. Embodying Strangers 5. Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement 6. Multiculturalism and the Proximity of Strangers 7. Going Strange, Going Native 8. Ethical Encounters: The Other, Others and Strangers 9. Close Encounters: Feminism and/in 'The Globe' 10. References