Diversity and otherness : transcultural insights into norms, practices, negotiations /

Diversity and otherness : transcultural insights into norms, practices, negotiations /

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This book critically examines multiple ways in which cultural diversity is, and has been represented and handled. It questions the construction of differences in doing culture while emphasizing the fluidity of cultural entanglements. It is an invitation to re-think norms, practices and negotiations...

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Other Authors: Gaupp, Lisa (Editor), Pelillo-Hestermeyer, Giulia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Warsaw : De Gruyter, [2021]
Subjects:
Cultural pluralism.
Multiculturalism.
Politics and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributing Authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Re-thinking Diversity and Transculturality: Introduction / Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer
  • 2 Epistemologies of Diversity and Otherness / Lisa Gaupp
  • 3 Un/Doing Differences. The Contingency of Social Affiliations / Stefan Hirschauer
  • 4 The "Cultural Turn" of Postmigrant Conviviality. A Historical Case Study on Practices and Discourses of (Multi)Cultural Diversity in Switzerland, 1970s-1990s / Kijan Espahangizi
  • 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 / Joseph Ciaudo
  • 6 Spaces of Otherness and Desire. Ballets Russes-Artist-Animators-Ethnographic Enquiry / Susanne Marten-Finnis
  • 7 ORLAN's Hybridizations: From Virtual to Literal Cyborg / From Mortal to Immortal Being / Barbara Ursula Oettl
  • 8 Transculturally Speaking: Linguistic Diversity, Otherness and the Transformation of Public Spheres / Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer
  • 9 Style, Sense and Senses: The Iconic and Transcultural Language of Italian Fashion / Dagmar Reichardt
  • 10 Encounters with Alterity: Romani on the Contemporary Italian Stage / Marta Niccolai
  • 11 Negotiating Gender in Germany-Normalizing Trans*Imaginations. On Aspects of Belonging to and Resisting the Normative Binary Gender Order / Marek Sancho Höhne
  • 12 How to Curate Diversity and Otherness in Global Performance Art / Lisa Gaupp
  • 13 Diversity in Scientific Communities: The Case of European-Japanese Cooperation at Fusion for Energy / Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer and Fabio Cismondi
  • 14 Decolonizing Otherness Through a Transcultural Lens: Conclusion / Lisa Gaupp
  • Academic Biographies
  • List of Figures
  • Index.

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