Fairies, ghosts, and Santa Claus : tinted glasses, fetishes, and the politics of seeing
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Doerr Neriko Musha (1967-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-1-80073-687-0
- Sujets : Fétichisme (psychologie), Changement social, Études de cas
- Comprend : Tinted glasses, fetishes, and the politics of seeing
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (VIII-248 pages), : Couverture illustrée en couleurs, 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en format numérique ; Notes bibliographiques en fin de chapitres. Bibliographie pages 225-242. Index
Résumé
'Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek'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'