Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Author : Neriko Musha Doerr

Hardback

Published : Friday 11 November 2022

ISBN : 9781800736870

Price : €115.83

Description

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Zizeks notion of fetish and Walter Benjamins 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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