Naturalising perceived otherness
- This essay takes an Anglophone Cultural Studies approach to reflect on the interdependence among as well as the individual (implicit) impact of the elements constituting our (embodied) power structures. These are, e.g., bodily experience/s such as shame and fear, everyday and institutional discourses and practices, but also manifestations of differences and particularities that we transform into phenomena such as “norms”, “binary systems” and “binary organisations”. The analysis of seemingly cyclic “Othering processes” and patterns of violence shows how people who identify as trans*, inter*, or non-binary have to live through and embody epistemological, emotional, and/or physical violence. At the same time, the descriptions illustrate numberless potential forms of resistance and change.
| Author details: | Melinda Niehus-Kettler |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.4163724.7 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8474-2679-0 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8474-1852-8 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Geschlechter in Un-Ordnung: Zur Irritation von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit im Wissenschaftsdiskurs |
| Subtitle (English): | Embodied patterns of violence |
| Publisher: | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
| Place of publishing: | Opladen, Berlin, Toronto |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2023/06/19 |
| Publication year: | 2023 |
| Release date: | 2023/07/18 |
| Tag: | LGTBQI+ communities; Othering; abuse cycles; binary systems; embodied power structures; embodiment; patterns of violence; percept cycles; punishment; resistance |
| Number of pages: | 18 |
| First page: | 57 |
| Last Page: | 74 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 188 |
