Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus
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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

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Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj ŽiŞek'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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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781800736887
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Anthropologie culturelle et sociale

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction — Tinted Glasses, Unit Thinking, and Coherants
  4. Chapter 1 — The Politics of vision and the Fetish beyond Optical Unconscious: Toward Spectacle Pedagogy
  5. Chapter 2 — Seeing Failed Ninja, Ghost Samurai, and Last Samurai: Phantom Japan at a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United State
  6. Chapter 3 — Seeing Angels: The Fetish of Smiling Angels in the “Poor but Happy” Discourse in Sierra Leone
  7. Chapter 4 — Seeing Holy Mouth Man: The Fetish of Study Abroad Transformation Talk
  8. Chapter 5 — Seeing Dr. Jekyll in Mr. Hyde: Political Others and beyond the Polariztion of “Critical” and “Uncritical”
  9. Chapter 6 — Seeing Fairies and Anti-Spectacle Pedagogy: Cottingley Photographs of Fairies and the Linguistic Landscape Project
  10. Chapter 7 — Seeing Santa Claus and Elves: Swinging between Fantasy-World-for-Escape and Scrutinized-World-for-Change
  11. Chapter 8 — Seeing Robbers, Freaks, and Dirt: Seeing Maui’s Fishhook in Scorpio and the Fetish of Us
  12. Conclusion — Continuing Dialogues
  13. References
  14. Index