2 Epistemologies of Diversity and Otherness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Contributing Authors VII
4. Acknowledgements IX
5. 1 Re-thinking Diversity and Transculturality: Introduction 1
6. 2 Epistemologies of Diversity and Otherness 13
7. 3 Un/Doing Differences. The Contingency of Social Affiliations 62
8. 4 The “Cultural Turn” of Postmigrant Conviviality. A Historical Case Study on Practices and Discourses of (Multi)Cultural Diversity in Switzerland, 1970s–1990s 96
9. 5 Promoting a Hygienic Dress That Transcends Cultural Life-Worlds: Some Remarks on the Rejection of Western Clothes by a Chinese Minister to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century 127
10. 6 Spaces of Otherness and Desire. Ballets Russes—Artist-Animators—Ethnographic Enquiry 146
11. 7 ORLAN’s Hybridizations: From Virtual to Literal Cyborg // From Mortal to Immortal Being 169
12. 8 Transculturally Speaking: Linguistic Diversity, Otherness and the Transformation of Public Spheres 185
13. 9 Style, Sense and Senses: The Iconic and Transcultural Language of Italian Fashion 208
14. 10 Encounters with Alterity: Romani on the Contemporary Italian Stage 245
15. 11 Negotiating Gender in Germany—Normalizing Trans*Imaginations. On Aspects of Belonging to and Resisting the Normative Binary Gender Order 269
16. 12 How to Curate Diversity and Otherness in Global Performance Art 290
17. 13 Diversity in Scientific Communities: The Case of European-Japanese Cooperation at Fusion for Energy 322
18. 14 Decolonizing Otherness Through a Transcultural Lens: Conclusion 336
19. Academic Biographies 356
20. List of Figures 360
21. Index 361