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

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

  1. 278 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

About this book

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek'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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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