Neriko Musha Doerr

Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus (eBook, PDF)

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Zizek's notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin's notion of the optical unconscious to offer newer concepts: "tinted glasses", through which we see the world; "unit-thinking", which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and "coherants", 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800736887
• Artikelnr.: 63753131

Autorenporträt

Neriko Musha Doerr is Assistant Professor at Ramapo College. Her publications include Transforming Study Abroad: A Handbook (Berghahn, 2020), The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices (Routledge, 2020) and The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad (Berghahn, 2017, with Hannah Taïeb).