Theories of the Stranger: Debates on Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Cross-Cultural Encounters

ISBN-13: 9780367596071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 134 str.

Vince Marotta

Opis

This book explores the pivotal role played by ‘the stranger’ in social theory, examining the different conceptualisations of the stranger found in the social sciences and shedding light on the ways in which these discourses can contribute to an analysis of cross-cultural interaction and cultural hybridity.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Theories of the Stranger

3. The Death of the ‘Classical Stranger’?

4. Georg Simmel, the Stranger and the Sociology of Knowledge

5. Civilisation, Culture and the ‘Marginal Man’

6. The Hybrid of Modernity

7. The Cosmopolitan Stranger: Mark II

8. The Multicultural Civil Sphere and the Universality of Binary Codes

9. The Cyborg Stranger and Posthumanism

10. Conclusion: Intercultural Knowledge and the ‘Professional Stranger’

O autorze

Vince Marotta is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Deakin University, Australia and Managing Editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies (Taylor & Francis). He is co-editor of Intercultural Relations in a Global World (2011, Common Ground Pub) and Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging (2012, MUP Academic).