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Understanding the Otherness in the Danube Region [PDF]

Journal of Danubian Studies and Research, 2016
The aim of this paper is to discuss the attitudes towards the Otherness in the Danube region. A monograph dedicated to the notions about the Otherness in Bulgaria.
Juliana Popova
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The Eight Technologies of Otherness

, 1997
The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and ...
Golding, Sue
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Respecting religious otherness as otherness versus exclusivism and religious pluralism [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter distinguishes respecting religious Otherness as Otherness from exclusivism and religious pluralism: The exclusivist fails to respect the religious Other, pluralists (e.g., John Hick) fail to respect the Otherness of the religious Other ...
Wiertz, Oliver J., Grube, Dirk-Martin, Jonker, Peter   +2 more
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Managing difference in feminized work: Men, otherness and social practice [PDF]

, 2009
The paper presents a qualitative study of men who do traditionally female dominated and feminized work (specifically nursing and primary school teaching). Men are often seen as not only a minority to women in these contexts, but also their Other.
Simpson, R, Pullen, A, Alison Pullen
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The absolute dialectics of sin and the becoming of freedom

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
The article discusses the notion of “self” developed by Kierkegaard and shows that it implies the presence of an otherness that is actively understood as difference, non-being, nothingness.
María J. Binetti
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Communication from otherness

RHS Revista Humanismo y Sociedad, 2016
The text starts with a reflection on how a modern society governed by functional rationality, the neoliberal model, capitalism and globalization leads to instrumentalization of communication, which, in turn, results in alienation of the other in the ...
Dora Aidé Ramírez González
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Suspicious spirits

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021
Over the last twenty years, a number of anthropologists have questioned the discipline’s “epistemology of intimacy” to show that in some parts of the world, Otherness plays an integral role in the construction of social unity.
Ilana van Wyk
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Mobilité des individus et familiarité construite : des arrangements qui offrent aux touristes des prises pour parcourir le monde

Mondes du Tourisme, 2016
Runner of the report that the mobility of the individuals comes up against the otherness of the worlds, three steps initiatives are mobilized for understanding how the circulation is possible: the first one emphasizes the spatial capital of the ...
Philippe Violier
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L’altérité au prisme de la polytextualité : les artefacts science-fictionnels de Points chauds (Laurent Genefort)

ReS Futurae, 2020
Points chauds (Hot Spots), by Laurent Genefort (2012), presents fictional testimonies in which recognition and distancing are combined to help understand, but also feel, what alien otherness would imply for human beings.
Simon Bréan
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Fluid Identities and Social Disruption: A Critical Examination of Otherness in the Íslendingaþættir

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
This article explores the concept of Otherness in two íslendingaþættir: Þórhalls þáttr knapps and Auðunar þáttr vestfirska. By analysing the protagonists’ social behaviour and interactions within the context of societal and situational shifts, this ...
Solveig Bollig
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