Strange Encounters

Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

By: Sara Ahmed

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Paperback | 27 July 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Strange Encounters examines 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 fascinating new book Saran Ahmed analyses 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.

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Cultural Studies Popular Culture

Introduction: Stranger fetishism and post-coloniality
Recognising Strangers
Knowing Strangers
Embodying Strangers
Home and Away: Narratives of migration and estrangement
Multiculturalism and the Proximity of Strangers
Going Strange, Going Native
Ethical Encounters: The other, others and strangers
Close Encounters: Feminism and in 'the globe'
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