Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus is written by Neriko Musha Doerr and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1800736886 (ISBN 10) and 9781800736887 (ISBN 13).

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer newer concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible. Examining experiences at a Japanese heritage language school, a study-abroad trip to Sierra Leone, as well as in college classrooms, this book reveals the workings of unit-thinking and fetishism in diverse contexts and explores possibilities for social change.