Strange Encounters - Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (Hardcover)

An examination of the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community. It challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructed as somebody we already know. In this book, Sarah Ahmed analyzes a diverse range of texts 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 at the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. However, 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". 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Transformations
Release date:	July 2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Sara Ahmed
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-20184-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General
LSN:	0-415-20184-5
Barcode:	9780415201841

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