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Motivational interviewing (MI) has established itself as an evidence-based practice, but little is known about what occurs in a MI session from a qualitative perspective. This study utilized discourse analysis and conversation analysis to examine how MI facilitated therapeutic change in a seminal video-recorded training session by William Miller, a founder of MI, with a client with alcohol and cigarette use issues. Results revealed identity construction as a mechanism both the client and the therapist engaged in. The client negotiated normalcy out of a stigmatized subject position of a person with addiction via two pathways: Ascribing himself qualities embedded in individualism discourses and othering. The therapist discursively saved the client's face through validation and normalization, strengthening the therapeutic rapport. Finally, the therapist used selective reflection to enlist the client in co-constructing an identity in the direction of change. The findings highlight the importance of understanding the complex interactions and therapeutic change in MI through the lens of identity construction. Practical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how efficiency—a seemingly universal economic narrative—traverses through the realm of diverse economies via the efforts of Qoin, a Dutch social enterprise specialised in designing alternative currencies. Such currencies in North-West Europe are, by and large, professionally designed and instituted via cross-sectoral partnerships of private enterprises, public sector organisations, and municipalities. Hence for these alternative currency practitioners, corporate standards have become the backbone whereupon ideals, expectations, and visions of society are articulated. This article focusses specifically on efficiency; although central to neoliberal capitalism, the notion is rarely critically examined in anthropology. The ethnography of Qoin's alternative currency provides an instance of how the work of economic alterity becomes entwined with, yet not necessarily co-opted by, logics of market efficiency. What emerges is a different ontology of efficiency: rather than being predicated on values of competition, the social efficiency Qoin aims for means cooperation on various levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay—part academic paper, part interview, part personal reflection—uses The Otherness Archive (OA) as a starting point to explore the possibilities and limitations in creating a transmasculine film archive. Founded by London-based trans artist Sweatmother, the OA is the first open-access online archive of transmasculine moving image. Open to institutional resources but skeptical of existing historiographic methods and archival structures, the OA aims to create a new transmasc film history, one based on mutual aid and community support—by transmasc people for transmasc people. Sweatmother refers to the transmasculine community whose work they intend to preserve and showcase as a group of "friends." I contend that referring to the transmasc community at large as "friends" enables a collapse of past and present, local and global, which in turn allows the OA to dream belonging otherwise—and start a conversation about gender variance across media, genre, space, and time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration has been a part of European societies for a long time, and has been viewed from different perspectives. However, the initial positive perception has shifted to a more negative one, especially after the 2015 European refugee crisis and the resurgence of right-wing politics in Europe. The crisis demonstrated the construction of an ‘us vs. them’ mentality with respect to immigrants, as many EU member states were not just hesitant but opposed to the new influx of migrants. There was considerable apprehension about the immigrants taking over the employment opportunities of the natives, issues of cultural incompatibility, fears about the social composition of the incoming migrant groups and the economic burden posed by the new entrants. Further, right-wing political parties were able to achieve electoral success through their fierce opposition to immigrants. The paper examines how the securitized view of migration in recent decades and the growing negativity towards immigrants due to the rise of far-right politics have contributed to the ‘othering’ of immigrants. Through case studies of several European countries, this paper seeks to substantiate the argument that the othering of immigrants has increased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Othering, as the basic political economy of identity cons truction, has been operative in human societies since ancient times, but it has been conceptually inves tigated only in recent times. Employing contrapuntal reading, the decons tructive s trategy adapted by Edward Said from classic Wes tern music, the present paper deals with the issue of identity politics in "Odysseus's Tale of Trials" from Homer's Odyssey to unravel the ideological subtext of this canonical romantic epic and give voice to the figures mons terized and suppressed by the hero and the narrative voice. It is argued that The Odyssey has significantly contributed to the cons truction of Wes tern subjectivity, giving a sense of national or cultural identity to both ancient Greek people and modern Wes tern man via setting them in opposition to their others. However, upon a contrapuntal reading, Odysseus is no different from the so-called savage, barbarous, villainous others he confronts in his ques t and the identity cons tructed for both parties is merely a matter of convention and discursive power. Thus, the findings of this s tudy challenge the commonsensical identity politics at work in Wes tern culture, in the hope of paving the way for further critical readings of such classical texts and reevaluating their translations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout their multifarious literary production, E.T.A. Hoffmann and J.R.R. Tolkien compassed exemplary creations of fantastic and fantasy literature characterized by but not limited to the use of elements from fairy tales and myths. Coincidentally, their works also responded to daedal changes in the western mind-set over the past four centuries. But rather than simply tracing direct, unequivocal similarities between Hoffmann and Tolkien, or between German Romanticism and Tolkien's emblematic fictional world, this chapter will focus in uncovering how the former's exploration of alterity and the uncanny can serve as an interpretative framework for reflecting on otherness and evil in Tolkien's Middle-earth narratives. While these issues in Tolkien's oeuvre have been addressed from a wide array of theoretical perspectives (Chance, Eaglestone, Fimi, and Shippey), the Dark Romantic gaze can provide new insights into the deployment of these themes in Tolkien's works. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion already boast gloomy landscapes, split personalities, encounters with monsters and spectres, powerful visions and dreams. At the same time, his narratives question the location of Otherness in the nature and/or appearance of others and reframe our sundering from evil as merely superficial. It is in this sense that Hoffmann's unique juxtaposition of Gothic ambience, supernatural horror, bourgeois every-day life, and even humour in classic texts of the Romantic fantastic such as 'Der Sandmann', Die Elixiere des Teufels, or 'Der goldne Topf' can be implemented to look at Tolkien's legendarium anew. This chapter thus constitutes an effort to reconnect Anglophone fantasy with expressions of the fantastic across different languages and time-space coordinates; and marks a novel intervention in the field of Tolkien studies by expanding both on the presence of the Romantic spirit in his works and his connection to authors like Hoffmann beyond their shared immersion into Faërie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents an ethnographic case study of pre-service teachers' transformative learning in a Culture-Writing course at a Chinese university. In recounting three stories with fieldwork data gleaned from moments of students' pre-class discussions, reflective writings, and reports on term-paper projects, this study showcases how a group of student-teachers transformed the self through getting to know and/or re-understanding other(s). Learning to 'write culture', as their teacher led them to see, is to appreciate the lifeworlds of others and further to destabilise taken-for-granted assumptions, beliefs, and understandings, thereby leading towards transformation. I argue that transformative learning takes place in the process of knowing and rebuilding the self in relationships with other(s). It constitutes moments of critical shift that place the self and identity in a more reflexive, relational, and reversible position within specific socio-cultural contexts. This study contributes to the ongoing discussions on transformative education by illuminating how other(s) play a role in promoting pre-service teachers' transformation in a classroom-based course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is South-South Cooperation providing a path of alterity for Global South states or is it indelibly caught in extractive and exploitative competition over resources and markets? Do Chinese engagements in the Global South increase African agency? Do they compete with or undermine Western-led Liberal International Order norms and standards? There is now a robust scholarship examining the failures and trepidations of the Liberal International Order especially from the vantage point of Global South perspectives. This scholarship sheds light, among other things, on the threat posed to the existing order by emerging powers engaging in South-South cooperation. Yet, despite the anxiety (or excitement) around South-South cooperation as an alternative to the liberal order, the question remains one of substance and concrete outcomes on whether the global order as we know it is being challenged or reinforced by emerging powers. This article argues for the need to look beyond the state as the main focus of analysis and interrogate the mechanisms, processes, and strategies undertaken by a wide array of actors engaging in South-South Cooperation. The article surveys African Affairs scholarship which takes a granular analysis of these dynamics on the ground from the perspectives of enterprises, agents, private business ventures and so on from China, India, and Brazil and how they navigate their engagements with African counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay offers the first graphic arguments as a prologue to identify a "weak": a neologism proposed to classify a moment in the Biobío River delta that the authors see as the architectural antithesis to the military fortifications that have historically categorized this body of water as a border, a word that has been rooted in the Chilean colonial national imaginary fundamental to our identity. Methodologically, the authors use graphics to explore the possibilities of a photographic disarticulation of this space, and the creation of alternative imaginaries with the aid of artificial intelligence, giving way to a new "misty" artifact that positions itself against the projective arguments of the established architectural narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (1988) and Ben, in the World (2000) narrate the tragic story of Ben Lovatt who is identified as the anomalous fifth child in the Lovatt family. Set in London in the 1960s, with its focalisation on Ben's early childhood, from his mother's pregnancy to his confinement into his cot after his birth, The Fifth Child navigates through the ideological construction of Ben's self through power and isolation. Ben, in the World, on the other hand, maintains Ben's story from his eighteenth year and presents his strife for survival in a social world in which he is forced to be a member of society with his social self and social body. While both works can be regarded as the adventures of Ben, who is isolated and alienated from his family and society, they also draw social environs in which Ben's body is constructed via the discursive mechanisms of otherness and wildness. Ben's othered self and body are foregrounded by abnormal corporeal relations and unhuman depictions throughout Lessing's fiction. In this sense, this study focuses on the trajectories of Ben's body in these narratives to discuss Ben's unruly body which is forced to be regulated by the familial, social and institutional mechanisms of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Across the four novels Daniel Davis Wood has published to date, it is possible to delineate an evolving ethics of literary voice. His initial step in Blood and Bone is to subvert the third-person omniscient voice by drastically expanding the imaginative abilities of the first-person narrator, thus showing how the narrator must always speak through a subjective position. The second step involves examining the extent to which the narrator's desire is not their own: the narrator of Unspeakable is portrayed as the victim of toxic narcissism and media manipulation, for instance, while the protagonist of At the Edge of the Solid World is so alienated from his own emotions that he relives the calamities of others to process his own tragedy. Despite possessing the quasi-omniscient powers of Blood and Bone, these two narrators, far from being godlike, are shown to be puppets of desires that are not their own. The outcome is the dissolution of the subjective "I" in In Ruins, in which the narrator comes to understand the Otherness that permeates human subjectivity. Moral failures are dissolved by the inability to say "I", making the new ethical task bearing witness to the desire of the Other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2005 most immigrants to Germany have been required to complete integration courses that include language instruction and a concluding orientation course on German history, the political system, and society. The state-approved textbooks for the orientation course are an instructive instance of state-sanctioned discourse about national belonging, immigration, and integration. This article applies a critical perspective to four such textbooks guided by the following questions: How are Germanness and national belonging portrayed? What understandings of immigration and immigrants, cultural differences, and integration do these texts present, and how do these compare to official, academic, and popular understandings? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses two primary tensions that currently beset medieval history. The first concerns a contentious debate within the field regarding the relative merits of two interpretative approaches: that which seeks to situate the Middle Ages within a narrative of continuity wherein aspects of the medieval bear some relationship of familiarity with the present and that which accords a radical alterity to the past that instigates moments of historical rupture. The second tension concerns the fraught relationship between history as a site of knowledge production with some proximity to engaging and producing truth and history as constructed, wherein its purported object of study, the past, is not an ontological fact but a cultural artifact. In this instance, what we witness is less a debate among scholars within history than an amorphic anxiety about history. This article makes a case for engaging the radical alterity that confronts the historian of the Middle Ages. It does so, however, cognizant of an ontological impasse: if alterity is attentive to difference, a difference that resists translation into modern knowledge regimes, then what does it mean to engage it historically—that is, through a temporal structure that would have been foreign to the very period of study? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks at the figure of the extreme anti-Shiʿi, the nāṣib , as treated by early Imami Shiʿi discourse during the seventh–ninth centuries CE. Several stories are studied in which the nāṣib is encountered as a problematic internal other within Shiʿi family structures. It is argued that such narratives gesture at the ways in which complex social realities were responded to by social and religious authorities such as the Shiʿi imams. While concerns about issues such as mixed marriages and overbearing parents were not restricted to Shiʿi families, the figure of the nāṣib shows us how certain ways of encountering others within kinship structures were related to the distinctive ways in which Imami Shiʿi social institutions harmonized or were dissonant with the wider society within which they were embedded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article will reflect on diversity of thought as an educational task and a remedy for the challenges of the contemporary world, where uncertainty, disorientation, and fear are strongly felt. The main areas of creating diversity will be highlighted, primarily criticality, with a focus on the idea of critical thinking, as well as social diversity and traveling. Diversity is primarily associated with stepping beyond one's own boundaries (egocentric, sociocentric, etc.) and actively embracing otherness. Therefore, I will strive to present my understanding of criticality against the backdrop of key and model concepts of critical thinking to emphasize zetetic criticism as an attitude leading to diversity of thought. Simultaneously, I will connect criticality with DEI efforts and the value of travel. Both of these activities illustrate two possible dimensions of stepping beyond the boundaries of one's own perception of the world (trans-personal dimension, trans-objective dimension), and both should be supported by shaping a critical attitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explored 'cultural diversity' in urban schools in Portugal by conducting discourse analysis on interviews with school practitioners. Findings show that 'cultural diversity' was dominantly anchored in Othering 'foreigners' that mainly associated 'non-native speakers' to difficulties in integration, participation and teachers'pedagogical work. However, contradicting discourses somewhat resisted Othering by highlighting meaningful differences, all students' rights, and calling for pedagogical changes. By showing the ambivalences in how students, teachers and pedagogical relationships are viewed, we both alert for an exclusionary conceptualization of 'cultural diversity', and question Othering as a fundamentalizing discourse to fully govern 'cultural diversity' in schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An excerpt from the article delves into themes of death, mourning, and precipitation, drawing from the works of Heidegger, Derrida, and Freud to explore the existential implications of mortality and the complex interplay between life and loss.

The dialogue between and comparative research into Christianity and Buddhism theoretically involve the issues of self and other. Faced with the cultural reality of religious diversity, theologies of religions provide four modes of dialogue through which Christianity can interface with religious others. The exploration of the infinite and transcendent traits of otherness in contemporary phenomenological philosophy, as well as the emphasis on differences in postmodern philosophy, contributes to maintaining a clear awareness of otherness and self-identity in the Buddhist–Christian dialogue. Following the dialogical path in comparative theology, which leads one out of oneself, into the other, and back into oneself, in experimental Buddhist-Christian dialogue activities, both Christianity and Buddhism figure as the self and the other. If they openly accept each other's otherness and heterogeneity, view each other as mirrors, and criticize and reflect on themselves, then creative insights into themselves will ultimately be generated. Their selves will be rediscovered, and their understanding and expression will be updated. Reflecting on the Buddhist–Christian dialogue from four aspects, namely, ultimate realism, cosmology, ethics, and religious ideals, can eliminate some misunderstandings and deepen both parties' understandings of themselves and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Prefacing the 2007 reprint of Der Leib, der Raum und die Gefühle (1998), Hermann Schmitz, founder of the Neue Phänomenologie movement, contends that the rationalism of the early Enlightenment, its belief in objective truth and in measurable, empty space, is rooted in a much earlier event: The Enlightenment of the fourth/fifth centuries B.C. in Greece which marked a decisive shift away from a view of a dynamic, filled and thus relational cosmos. Whereas here, humans and natural phenomena are still interconnected, corporeal and dynamically involved with each other, the new paradigm is defined by intellectualism and an inward turn, with consciousness emerging as the culturally-sanctioned intellectual forerunner of solipsism and its cultural footprint: radical disconnection. In this paper, I argue that while cultural paradigms cannot easily be undone, with the help of phenomenological thinking, we have access to a different narrative, an important first step in re-thinking both interconnection and human responsibility in a world in which we have done so much damage. Outlining the contributions of Husserl (intersubjectivity) and Merleau-Ponty (embodiment and perception) as well as Schmitz (atmosphere), I hope to show that the phenomenological focus shifts from an initial Cartesianism (Husserl) towards relationality and an ethical re-focussing. By articulating a model of perception in which every moment of our understanding is shaped by relationality, phenomenological voices contribute alongside other forms of cultural expression to give hope for a different way of doing things, a hope badly needed in times of war and environmental disaster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present study investigated agentive one-on-one intercultural communication between L2 English-speaking international faculty and their L2 English-speaking host colleagues in relation to identity (re)construction. Two foreign professors and their Chinese faculty colleagues participated in the study. The research instruments consisted of reflective journal writing and in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The results indicated that the occasions of the faculty's communication at Chinese universities were both influenced by and influenced a number of factors. These factors represented self- and other-positioning, agency, appropriation of native speakerism, face-threatening acts, and alterity. Based on the findings of the study, research implications are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the relationship between film and games as forms of audio-visual play from the perspective of media theory and game studies. Initially, I discuss the research into mimetic audio-visual play, media and genres with their affordances and the transformation brought about by digitization to the mediascape. The comparative analysis starts with an outline of the evolution of films and games, followed by an investigation into their unique modes of representation, narration and audiovisualization. Research findings conclude that the cinematic mode of representation captures external movement, while games model systems dynamically; films present time-based narrative syntagms, whereas games offer space-based multilinear paradigms for playful selection; films still work primarily with indexical recordings, games with non-indexical procedural animations, although hybridization of recording and animation characterizes contemporary media practice. In sum, the relation between films and games can be defined as alterity, an interrelated, reciprocal and mutually influential otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the effect of rising authoritarianism on Russian and Serbian feminists. In both cases, regimes rely on what I term "Othering back." Using "gender ideology" as a proxy for Western imperialism, they reappropriate postcolonial frames to reject democratization and human rights. In such a context, the critical argument that transnational feminism is an exercise of Western Othering to reify power relations no longer resonates with feminists on the ground. To them it dangerously resonates with their own regime's discourse. The article first traces how the regimes conduct authoritarian Othering back. Based on interpretive discourse analysis, applied to sixty-nine interviews, it then shows how Russian and Serbian feminists make sense of this political environment and the new strategies they derive from their interpretation: the need for discursive subversion that articulates alternative imaginaries of transnational feminism that cannot be reappropriated by the regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines Mahasweta Devi's literary work 'Rudali' alongside Kalpana Lajmi's cinematic adaptation Rudaali from the perspective of Derek Attridge's views on literary instrumentalism and literariness. It attempts to tease out the literary elements and explore the shifting dynamic of the instrumental and the literary. The article looks at how the focus on the literariness in the two works facilitates an opening out towards the 'other' and an inclusivity that an instrumental approach may negate. The article also analyses the representation of the stereotype of the sex worker as prostitute and whore in the story and the film vis-à-vis the dynamics of openness to otherness and alterity. As a comparative analysis of the text and its adaptation in film, the article studies the contrast and complementarity of these works in text and film and finally examines how the features particular to the specific medium bring to bear on the instrumental approach, literariness, stereotypes and inclusivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focuses on Jaroslav Maria’s novel Váhy a meč (Sword and Scales, 1928), which it analyses as a microhistorical case, viewing this work/text as an indicator of, and factor in, social events within a specific historical constellation (i.e. the period around 1928). Jaroslav Maria’s novels were very popular in the interwar period, even though they were negatively viewed from the aesthetic standpoint; their subject matter was the life of the various social classes, morality, justice and the judiciary. The novel Sword and Scales refers to actual court cases that were tried in Czechoslovakia, subversively presents and distorts some of the stereotypes of the era with its imagery (femininity, racial and social otherness — the topic of the Roma minority) and gets involved in political issues. This study examines the historical context and the contemporary reception of the novel and on this basis analyses the way in which the literary work has been socially utilized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay proposes Animal Drag as an activist performance in which a human critically and consciously performs animality to de-centre the human. Dress and adornment are key to its dissidence. Animal Drag's potential is demonstrated through an analysis of Terry Notary's performance of a nonhuman primate within Ruben Östlund's 2017 film The Square. Drawing on posthuman studies, scholarship on subordinated groups and from the field of animal studies, the reading of this performance shows how Animal Drag inherently queers humanist and essentialist notions of classification, particularly the human / animal divide. Paying homage to drag, the essay demonstrates how the material and social semiotics of performance can render transparent the constructions of race, coloniality, ability, and gender, as much as species -- in other words, "doing human". Through theories of dress and prosthesis, highlighting how techne facilitates in-between and "becoming" states, and affect theory, this article argues that humans and nonhumans might share vulnerabilities via Animal Drag. Culture is understood through language and dress, which have been mobilised to construct Otherness. As such, this essay posits that Animal Drag should take place within capitalist Culture industries, as both weapons and targets, to undress powers present and performed. Animal Drag is offered as both practice and theory, content and form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper shows how otherness, having a negative representation potential, is covered in media discourse with a focus on the first day of the Russia–Ukraine war. In this article, I specifically investigate the representation of otherness that weaves the web of relations within the "us versus them" narrative espoused most strongly by Teun A. Van Dijk (1992. Discourse and the denial of racism. Discourse and Society 3. 87–118, 2002. Discourse and racism. In David Goldberg & John Solomos (eds.), The Blackwell companion to racial and ethnic studies, 145–159. Oxford: Blackwell) and further developed within the premises of a proximisation theory (e.g., Cap 2013. Proximization: The pragmatics of symbolic distance crossing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins; Chilton 2004. Analysing political discourse: Theory and practice. London: Routledge). This framework concerns the positive self-representation of Ukraine and its performance contrasted with Russia's negative other-presentation. Following this account, otherness serves as means of legitimising media actions as preventive measures taken to inform society about the past, create the present state of the world through assertions (Dunmire 2011. Projecting the future through political discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins; Searle 2010. Making the social world: The structure of human civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press) which endorse media credibility and predict future outcomes with respect to the horror of the unfolding war. This study argues that the representation of otherness takes place at the proximisation level of certain lexico-grammatical choices that are used strategically by media to cover the narrative of a "permanent military standby" and the "immediacy of otherness". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building on recent musicological research that emphasizes the mobility of songs, this article investigates Marseille as a site of cultural encounter and highlights the musical presence of enslaved galley rowers and translators in the city. It focuses on several descriptions of music-making in southern France by the French antiquarian Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and his efforts to find materials on Ottoman and Persian music for the music theorist Marin Mersenne. Utilizing the constant influx of goods and people into the city, Peiresc relied on mercantile networks to obtain transcriptions of songs and music theoretical texts, engaging various informers and translators from the eastern Mediterranean. Focusing on a transcription of a single song that has been lost, the article traces the song's connections to cultures of collection, cultural translation, and transcription, with singing constituting a central site in which to negotiate and perform otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Struggling between the contradictory demands of colonial and neocolonial forces, Muslim women have been constantly at the center of ideological, political, and religious discourses and subjected to surveillance at multiple levels. More specifically, Muslim women's bodily practices, particularly the veil, as an embodied marker of difference that challenges the Western ideals of femininity and signals the "Otherness" of Muslim women, have been at the center of debates on Muslim women's bodies and embodiment. This thematic review of feminist scholarship on regulating and controlling Muslim women's bodies suggests that postcolonial and postsecular feminists have tried to alter narratives portraying veiled Muslim women as "victims" of patriarchal oppression and have disputed representations of Muslim women as "Others." However, important nuances of Iranian Muslim women's multidimensional and complex decisions, informed by multiple matrixes of power, whether in the form of self‐regulation or through the constant control of the surveilling gaze of dominant "Others," remain to be explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sexual desire for a partner is a unique feature that distinguishes romantic relationships from other close relationships. Yet desire is one of the most fragile relationship elements, often declining over time. Research has shown that the relationship processes that foster closeness (i.e., overlap between the self and partner; interconnection) are associated with higher desire and help couples maintain desire over time. However, this work does not explain how many couples who are quite close and connected can also report low levels of desire. One perspective, mostly from clinical observations and interviews with couples, is that too much closeness in a relationship stifles desire. Here, we review the empirical evidence for the association between closeness (and related constructs) and sexual desire. From this review, we propose that higher closeness is associated with higher desire, and rather than too much closeness stifling desire, high closeness might be optimally linked to desire when paired with a sense of otherness (i.e., distinctiveness between partners that allows for new insights and acknowledgment of unique contributions). Future research refining the concept of "otherness" and considering the balance of closeness and otherness in relationships has the potential to provide new insights into sexual-desire maintenance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I reflect on my empirical engagement in the global (digital) health movement #WeAreNotWaiting in the context of Type 1 Diabetes. I want to take my relationships and interactions in this community as a starting point to discuss the multifacetedness of doing ethnographic research in health-political activist communities while not being affected by the health conditions the research participants are affected by and not sharing their explicit personal-political aim. Building on Donna Haraway's conceptualization of situated knowledge and Kim TallBear's notion of ethics of accountability, I empirically retrace three accounts of disclosing otherness in my empirical engagement that were generative for my understanding of the movement. I suggest that the moments where one needs to explain oneself, where one is met with skepticism, or experiences tensions, might be uncomfortable and challenging but can be generative. To engage with them can contribute to the accountability of the ethnographer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I explore the relationship between heritage, difference, and urban development. More specifically, I present a case study of the barrio of Patronato in Santiago de Chile and show how its heritage of otherness simultaneously situates the neighbourhood on the fringes of the city and plays into the neoliberal logic of its developmental trajectory. I argue that Patronato works as a post-dictatorial memory haunt frequented by a past that might appear missing on the surface but is in fact there, urging us to further nuance our understanding of the presences and absences of the bygone. In a broader sense, I use the example of Patronato to point to the often subtle but nonetheless significant entanglement between neighbourhood actors and the political establishment in the realm of heritage; an entanglement that, I suggest, requires further critical scrutiny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study analyses the frame resonance in the Twitter debate of Gustavo Petro and, especially, of Francia Márquez's rhetoric during the presidential elections campaign of 2022. I specifically study the potential resonance of the notion of Otherness in tweets attributed to women and to men. I apply several methodological protocols including network analysis and topic modeling. The results are positive on the frame resonance of the campaign and Francia Márquez rhetoric in both groups, showing ideological-political engagement from a semantic view more than a gendered connection. However, semantic relatedness to the particular framing studied here appears to be stronger in women than in men. Addressing Twitter attributes such as mentions and hashtags is similar in both groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2019 novel Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo tackles concerns prevalent in contemporary society. Because the body is such an elemental factor in the novel, as it has become in different realms of life, the bodies of its twelve characters serve as a canvas through which various class, gender, ethnical, sexual, and religious paradigms are presented and questioned. This article intends to explore, through an intersectional lens, the experiences lived by some of these womxn which are reflected, conditioned and filtered through their bodies. It focuses on the role of the body as both a vessel for expression and/or oppression of identity, separately, having in mind that these womxn are (second-generation) immigrants of differing ages and socio-economic backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term primary subjectivity of the analyst, proposed and developed in the study, analytically highlights and conceptualizes a speci!c type of subjectivity of the analyst, present in the analytical !eld, whose nature is absolutely idiosyncratic and original. This factor originates from and incessantly feeds back the primary psychic matrix of the analyst, while it co-creates the intersubjective analytic third; its essential qualities are uniqueness, the character of being diverse from the patient's subjectivity, and alterity, the character of being external, and of existing, to some extent, independently of the patient's subjectivity. From an intrasubjective perspective, the concept of the analyst's primary subjectivity is elaborated, in the study, through the notion of founding and determining attributes of the analyst's subjectivity; from an intersubjective perspective, it leads to nosological proposals of creative, foreign and vicious countertransference. The coinage and prospection of this terminolo' inaugurate a line of conceptual research on the analyst's subjectivity and are intended to pave the way for further studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an existential-phenomenological approach, the world is not narrowed down to external things and events but is understood as a context of meaning that includes everything that people experience and 'in which' they conduct their lives. This paper undertakes an analysis of how digital technology is transforming the world in an existential-phenomenological sense and why such a digitally transformed world diminishes the human capacity for religious experience. In accord with Husserl's characterisation of science as a mathematical project of nature and with Heidegger's critique of technology as the will to power, digital technology represents a further step in subjugating the world and life. Such a mastering stance, however, not only closes man off from the possibility of experiencing the transcendent 'otherness' that forms the basis for religious experience, but also closes him off from authentic life, which is inconceivable without elements of uncontrollability and contingency. Overcoming our digital entrapment requires a recognition of the role of the 'lifeworld', which, through its passive elements, enables us to experience gratitude and makes us receptive to religious experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how Jews and Judaism are envisioned in the Catholic imagination, through a critical reading of contemporary Catholic discourse on Judaism. It identifies three problematic areas. The first concerns the tendency of Catholic discourse to project a specifically Christian vision of salvation history onto the Jewish people, which reflects Christian rather than Jewish self-understanding. Second, this article analyzes patterns in language and imagery in Vatican documents about Judaism, alert to troubling allusions implicit in the texts. The third area concerns a hermeneutical obstacle to deep interreligious understanding, one which may be ultimately insurmountable: namely, the challenges of understanding the religious other according to its own self-understanding. This article reaches an ambivalent conclusion, conceding that the goal of recognizing the self-understanding of another religious tradition may ultimately be impossible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]