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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus: Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

By Neriko Musha Doerr

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781800736887
DOI
10.1515/9781800736887
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
761 kB (779242 bytes)
Pages
278\256
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:22:35

Description

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.

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