Strange encounters [Elektronisk resurs] embodied others in post-coloniality / Sara Ahmed.

• Cover; Strange Encounters; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: stranger fetishism and post-coloniality; PART I Encountering the stranger; 1 Recognising strangers; 2 Embodying strangers; 3 Knowing strangers; PART II Closer to home; 4 Home and away: narratives of migration and estrangement; 5 Multiculturalism and the proximity of strangers; 6 Going strange, going native; PART III Beyond stranger fetishism; 7 Ethical encounters: the other, others and strangers; 8 Close encounters: feminism and/in 'the globe'; Notes; References. 
• Index. 

• 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', sh 

Ämnesord

Antropologi  (sao)

Kulturmöten  (sao)

Feministisk teori  (sao)

Mångkulturella samhällen  (sao)

Minoriteter  (sao)

Community. 

Feminist theory. 

Immigrants. 

Intercultural communication. 

Minorities. 

Postcolonialism. 

Strangers. 

Anthropology  (LCSH)

Cultural pluralism  (LCSH)

Intercultural communication  (LCSH)

Feminist theory  (LCSH)

Minorities  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HM1211 .A35 (LCC)

303.482 (DDC)

Oab (kssb/8 (machine generated))