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

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2021

Diversity and Otherness

Transcultural Insights into Norms, Practices, Negotiations

Edited by: Lisa Gaupp and Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9788366675308

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About this book

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 that specific socio-cultural features are made relevant to create asymmetries and hierarchies between individuals, groups and cultural resources, the volume questions, on the one hand, contingent processes of regulation, standardization, and homogenization of diversity. It points at contradictory processes of in- and exclusion related to the construction of differences between the Self and the Other in processes of doing culture. On the other hand, it recognizes and emphasizes the fluidity of cultural entanglements by adopting a transcultural perspective, which unifies the variety of the topics and of the contexts covered by the chapters, as well as their inter- and transdisciplinarity. While processes such as globalization, decolonization, migration, and mediatization have contributed to place diversity at the centre-stage of both scholarly and non-scholarly debates, this book invites to re-think norms, practices and negotiations of diversity and otherness through a variety of narrations, standardizations, imaginations, and negotiations. By emphasizing the contrast between emancipatory vs. standardizing approaches to diversity and otherness it also invites to “transculturalize” the study and the politics of culture.

Author / Editor information

Lisa Gaupp, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany; Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer, University of Heidelberg, Germany

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
List of Contributing Authors Open Access Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	IX
1 Re-thinking Diversity and Transculturality: Introduction Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Epistemologies of Diversity and Otherness Lisa Gaupp Open Access Download PDF	13
3 Un/Doing Differences. The Contingency of Social Affiliations Stefan Hirschauer Open Access Download PDF	62
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 Open Access Download PDF	96
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 Open Access Download PDF	127
6 Spaces of Otherness and Desire. Ballets Russes—Artist-Animators—Ethnographic Enquiry Susanne Marten-Finnis Open Access Download PDF	146
7 ORLAN’s Hybridizations: From Virtual to Literal Cyborg // From Mortal to Immortal Being Barbara Ursula Oettl Open Access Download PDF	169
8 Transculturally Speaking: Linguistic Diversity, Otherness and the Transformation of Public Spheres Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer Open Access Download PDF	185
9 Style, Sense and Senses: The Iconic and Transcultural Language of Italian Fashion Dagmar Reichardt Open Access Download PDF	208
10 Encounters with Alterity: Romani on the Contemporary Italian Stage Marta Niccolai Open Access Download PDF	245
11 Negotiating Gender in Germany—Normalizing Trans*Imaginations. On Aspects of Belonging to and Resisting the Normative Binary Gender Order Marek Sancho Höhne Open Access Download PDF	269
12 How to Curate Diversity and Otherness in Global Performance Art Lisa Gaupp Open Access Download PDF	290
13 Diversity in Scientific Communities: The Case of European-Japanese Cooperation at Fusion for Energy Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer and Fabio Cismondi Open Access Download PDF	322
14 Decolonizing Otherness Through a Transcultural Lens: Conclusion Lisa Gaupp Open Access Download PDF	336
Academic Biographies Open Access Download PDF	356
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	360
Index Open Access Download PDF	361

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: researchers and students in cultural studies
Pages
- Main content: 377
Keywords: Transcultural theory; Difference; Globalization; Representation; Standardization; Power; Conviviality; Arts; Fashion; Multilingualism

eBook

Published: October 11, 2021
ISBN: 9788366675308

Hardcover

Published: October 25, 2021
ISBN: 9788366675292