Situating strangeness : exploring the intersections between bodies and borders / edited by Vanessa Longden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Longden, Vanessa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture.

Political sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2016]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Zygmunt Bauman, in his publication Liquid Modernity, described the meeting of strangers as a mismeeting - a brief encounter which had no past and the unlikely possibility of a future. This suggests a meeting which is free from expectation, but it also has the potential to fuel alienation and displacement. Being a stranger is not synonymous with distant geographies or borderlands, though it does include them: strangers and peculiar places can be found closer to home. Themes of alienation, strangeness and foreignness converge in the following accounts. The reader will migrate through unrecognisable narratives coming into contact with diasporic identities, stand-up comedians, English Language Educators, artists and photographers, to mention a few. These accounts are diverse but commonalities are tangled between webs of thought. Readers are invited to tug at the threads of this web, to find their own connections and chance upon unexpected revelations which come through picking the ends.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Vanessa Longden

Strangers in a Strange City: Ilya Kabakov’s ‘Total Installation’ as an ‘Archive Song of Ruins’ / Anca Baicoianu

Meetings in Virtual Spaces: Re-Examining Francesca Woodman’s Self-Portraits / Vanessa Longden

Ethnic and Extraterrestrial Invaders / Laura Thursby

The Other at Home: Narratives of Difference and Migration / Alexandra Deliu

Identity and Attitudes toward Return among Romanians Abroad / Elena Tudor

Homeless in the ‘Promised’ Homeland: An Exploration of the Concept of the Diasporic Consciousness through the South Asian Case Study of the ‘Biharis’ of Bangladesh / Isha Dubey

Problematic Privilege: Female Western Native English Speaker English Educators (WNESEE) in Japan / Gabrielle Piggin

The Laugh Is Political: Public and Popular Notions of Indianness in Qatar / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

In-Between Assimilation and Dissimilation: Artistic Responses to Postcolonial Issues of Ethnic Minorities in East Asia and the Commonwealth of Nations / Hiroki Yamamoto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-417-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884175 DOI