In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is deemed acceptable—has fractured humanity, creating divisions that seemingly defy reconciliation. How do we restore the bonds of connection among human beings? How do we shift from polarization to peace?
On Othering: Processes and Politics of Unpeace examines the process of othering from an international perspective and considers how it undermines peacemaking and is perpetuated by colonialism and globalization. Taking a humanistic approach, contributors argue that celebrating difference can have a transformative change in seeking peaceful solutions to problems created by people, institutions, ideas, conditions, and circumstances. Touching on race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and our relationship with the natural world, this volume attends to the deep injustices brought about by othering and recommends actions for mending the relationships that are essential to renewing the possibility of peace.
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- Athabasca, CA
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- Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines
- Series
- Global Peace Studies
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half Title 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 14
- Part 1 The Other Within 42
- 1. Hosting the Hostage: Hospitality, the Uyghur Other, and Chinese State-Imposed Peace 44
- 2. The Ubiquitous Other, or the Muslims of Assam: Is Peace Possible? 68
- 3. Bordering and Everyday Peace with the Other 100
- Part 2 The Marginal Other: Gender, Sexuality, and Race 124
- 4. Muslims in Italy: Rooting and Pluralism, Inequalities and Islamophobia 126
- 5. Global North Homoimperialism and the Conundrum of Queer Asylum 146
- 6. Unfree Muslims: Islamophobia and the (Im)Possibilities of Muslim Belonging in America 166
- 7. Killing Machine: How Mexican and US States of Exception Turned Revolutionaries and Migrants into 188
- 8. There Are No Signs: Feeling Black in a Post–Jim Crow America 210
- 9. Building Bridges Between Queer and Normative Muslims 232
- Part 3 Nature as Other: The Human and Non-human Relationship 256
- 10. “A Foothold in the Sheer Wall of the Future”: Extinction, Making Kin, and Imagining Peace in The 258
- 11. The Earth as a Phobic Object: Negative Ecology and the Rise of Eco-Fascism 282
- 12. “Peace” for Indigenous Peoples: Land-Based Visions of Reconciliation 302
- Afterword: Imagining People’s Peace 324
- Contributors 334
