Otherness

Question 1

Otherness

Answer 1

us - them (collective group identity - alterity)
othering as strategy -> certain people “banished” to the margins of social categaries
NOT INNOCENT

Question 2

representation

Answer 2

constitutes our world we take for granted
connects meaning to culture and language
regime of representation

Question 3

regime of representation

Answer 3

sets norm
defines what you can think, what is true
assignes identities to groups and individuals
consolidates differences

Question 4

intersectionality

Answer 4

multiple differences apply to one person, causes multiple marginalization

Question 5

differences

Answer 5

are constructions
can be positive and negative (ambivalent)
assign identities (interpellation)
intersectionality

fundamental for: the production of meaning, social identities (relational) and a feeling of belonging
threatening: discrimination, reduce complexity, hierarchy of power implied, hostility towards a certain marginalized group

Question 6

stereotyping

Answer 6

classification including (positive/negative) evaluation
(vs. type -> tool of classification, without evaluation)
central to many representations

Question 7

mechanisms of stereotyping

Answer 7

reduces complexity, generelizes -> fixes differences
splits by setting norms (normal vs. abnormal)

Question 8

functions of stereotyping

Answer 8

maintenance of social order, boundaries (who belongs)
ethnocentrism (only looking for your own pov)
fetishism, demonization, romanticizing

Question 9

demonization

Answer 9

negative stereotypes

Question 10

romanticizing

Answer 10

positive stereotypes (Native americans!)

Question 11

resistance to othering

Answer 11

reversing stereotypes
substituting negative images with positive ones
contesting reprentational regime from within

Question 12

reversing stereotypes

Answer 12

accepting assigned cultural identities and developing positive attitudes towards that

Question 13

substituting negative images with positive ones

Answer 13

more complex and divers representation
does not solve racism
capitalization? (question the agency behind it)

Question 14

contesting reprentational regime from within

Answer 14

focus on racial representation
works with body and gaze

Question 15

binary oppositions / dichotomies

Answer 15

two contrasting terms. Each term is a culturally defining characteristic for a different group of people. It shows power relations and reduces complexity. the superiour group in power defines the oppositions
female-male black-white private-public