Diversity and Otherness : Transcultural Insights into Norms, Practices, Negotiations /

This book critically examines multiple ways in which cultural diversity is represented and handled in a variety of contexts, from the artistic to the scientific, from the political to the theatrical, in media, fashion and everyday life, today as well as in the past. By drawing from the observation t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ciaudo, Joseph (Contribuidor), Cismondi, Fabio (Contribuidor), Espahangizi, Kijan (Contribuidor), Gaupp, Lisa (Contribuidor, Editor ), Hirschauer, Stefan (Contribuidor), Marten-Finnis, Susanne (Contribuidor), Niccolai, Marta (Contribuidor), Pelillo-Hestermeyer, Giulia (Contribuidor, Editor ), Reichardt, Dagmar (Contribuidor), Sancho Höhne, Marek (Contribuidor), Ursula Oettl, Barbara (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2021]
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Transcultural theory, Difference, Globalization, Representation, Standardization, Power, Conviviality, Arts, Fashion, Multilingualism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributing Authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Re-thinking Diversity and Transculturality: Introduction
  • 2 Epistemologies of Diversity and Otherness
  • 3 Un/Doing Differences. The Contingency of Social Affiliations
  • 4 The "Cultural Turn" of Postmigrant Conviviality. A Historical Case Study on Practices and Discourses of (Multi)Cultural Diversity in Switzerland, 1970s-1990s
  • 5 Promoting a Hygienic Dress That Transcends Cultural Life-Worlds: Some Remarks on the Rejection of Western Clothes by a Chinese Minister to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
  • 6 Spaces of Otherness and Desire. Ballets Russes--Artist-Animators--Ethnographic Enquiry
  • 7 ORLAN's Hybridizations: From Virtual to Literal Cyborg // From Mortal to Immortal Being
  • 8 Transculturally Speaking: Linguistic Diversity, Otherness and the Transformation of Public Spheres
  • 9 Style, Sense and Senses: The Iconic and Transcultural Language of Italian Fashion
  • 10 Encounters with Alterity: Romani on the Contemporary Italian Stage
  • 11 Negotiating Gender in Germany--Normalizing Trans*Imaginations. On Aspects of Belonging to and Resisting the Normative Binary Gender Order
  • 12 How to Curate Diversity and Otherness in Global Performance Art
  • 13 Diversity in Scientific Communities: The Case of European-Japanese Cooperation at Fusion for Energy
  • 14 Decolonizing Otherness Through a Transcultural Lens: Conclusion
  • Academic Biographies
  • List of Figures
  • Index

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