Communicating the Other across Cultures: From Othering as Equipment for Living, to Communicating Other/Wise
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“Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager’s brilliant book offers readers a concise and provocative definition of cultural Othering—a practice of politically empowered elites to discursively, visually, and materially divide humanity into a group of those with access to the freedoms of liberal, Western modernity and those on whose backs that world has been built. Her examination of cultural Othering is elegant and pointed, pulling from cases across vast geopolitical and historical events to elucidate the harms of Othering and to acknowledge the importance in disentangling ourselves from the Self/Other regime.” -- Michael Lechuga, Author of Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies“This book is a timely reminder that othering, while persistent, has never been the only way people approach those who are different from them.” -- Jolanta Drzewiecka, Università della Svizzera italiana“A beautifully written and deeply textured exploration of the multiple meanings of ‘Othering.’ Khrebtan-Hörhager leads the reader to reflect upon an array of textual and visual examples of depictions of Others, driving home the argument that this is a universal and ongoing challenge.” -- Todd Sandel, The University of Macau“This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of cultural othering as a discursive, rhetorical, and material process. Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager astutely integrates cross-continental histories of othering, oppression, and resistance to illuminate othering as a complex assemblage that guides how we live with each other.” -- Marina Levina, The University of Memphis"An intellectually stimulating, rigorously analyzed, and historically extremely well-informed study of the phenomenon of Othering worldwide. It engages a wide variety of disciplines without yet compromising on the original aims and scope of the book. . . It could also greatly benefit scholars of globalization, as well as political scientists, ethnographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and critical media scholars."
-- Ukrainian Journal of World Literature VSESVIT, Evgeniya Pyatovskaya"An intricate and relevant work that elucidates intercultural Othering from multiple perspectives. The book engages with the concept of Othering from a critical cultural perspective and through presenting and analysing complex cross-cultural and cross-temporal examples of verbal, visual, and material cultural Othering across the globe." -- Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Evgeniya PyatovskayaAbout the Author
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and a Director of Education Abroad Programs in Italy at Colorado State University, a Director of the ACT International Human Rights Film Festival, and a Global Scholar at the Institute for Shipboard Education/Semester at Sea.-
Elliott Fritsch
26-08-2024While the merits of this book are many, one of the characteristics that stands out the most to me is how the author goes beyond the usual focus (at least in the field of communication studies) on linguistic Othering--a valuable but limited scope of analysis--and instead takes seriously the complexity of how cultural Othering functions, analyzing the manifestations of Othering in its linguistic, visual/aesthetic, and material forms. In addition, while some (like the reviewer "Corn Cob" above) may critique the book for not addressing a comprehensive global list of Othering contexts (a task impossible to do in one book, when giving the material the analytical depth it deserves for every context), the book ultimately contributes conceptual tools that can equip scholars and lay readers alike to better understand the processes, forms, and implications of cultural Othering on a local, national, and global scale.Overall, this book is well-worth the read.
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Barbara Haag
26-08-2024This is truly compellingexploration of the profound impact of identity on political and social change. I appreciate how the book not only highlights the tragic consequences of cultural Othering but also provide into the resilience of marginalized groups."Communicating the Other across Cultures" is an invaluable contribution to the discourse on identity, power, and societal change. Highly recommend!
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Tyson Hessel
26-08-2024This book starts with a discussion of the negative effects of colonial and imperial expansions on the exploited people. If you agree with that discussion, you would have learned nothing new. If you disagree, you probably will not bother to read this book.It then goes into some suggestions on how best to use media to communicate with the exploited people; in movies, literature, and art. This should be of use to those who work in those media and want to improve their communications with such people.There are some drawbacks. The book only discusses exploitation by the USA, Europe, and Russia, where the exploited are viewed as “other” by the exploiters. It does not discuss Chinese exploitation of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang. Indian Hindu extremists’ anti-Muslim “great replacement theory”, and Buddhists in Myanmar killing Rohingya Muslims are both not discussed.There was one serious problem that costs one star in my review of the book. The book states that “...racial covenants still carry the full force of the law across the United States, prohibiting in certain regions ‘the selling, transferring or leasing of property to “persons of the African or Negro, Japanese, Chinese, Jewish or Hebrew races, or their descendants”’—unless, of course, they are servants.” This is simply a lie.The Supreme Court ruled the covenants unenforceable in 1948 and although the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed them, the hurtful, offensive language still exists - an ugly reminder of the USA's racist past -but they do not remotely have the “full force of the law”. It does not seem possible to me that this was a misunderstanding.Search: NPR racial-covenants-housing-discrimination
