Communicating the other across cultures : from othering as equipment for living, to communicating other/wise /
Communicating the Other across Cultures uses examples from the United States, western Europe and Russia to demonstrate historical patterns of othering people, as well as how marginalized people fight back against dominant powers that seek to silence or erase them. Deeply ingrained in our society, cu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Communicating the Other across Cultures uses examples from the United States, western Europe and Russia to demonstrate historical patterns of othering people, as well as how marginalized people fight back against dominant powers that seek to silence or erase them. Deeply ingrained in our society, cultural othering affects information in history books, children’s education and the values upheld in our society. By taking a closer look at historical and modern instances of othering, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager shows examples of how different societies created ideas of social and cultural superiority or inferiority, and how deeply they are ingrained in our current society. In everyday life, the cash in your pocket, the movies shown at your local theater, museum exhibits or politician's speeches, certain cultural ideologies are consistently upheld, while others are silenced. By exposing the communicative patterns of those in power, Khrebtan-Hörhager then suggests alternative ways of thinking, communicating and eventually being, that offer transformative solutions for global problems. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-333) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0472056522 9780472056521 0472076523 9780472076529 |