» Panel session 7: Static Reception: Mediating Otherness

session chair:

Carmen Nolte

English Department

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Session intro: This panel investigates representations of Otherness in various media constellations.  Cinema, television, and literature are among the diverse modes of expression that render images of Self and other. How these images are apprehended have an intimate relation to a politics of difference and Otherness. Using a range of postcolonial and critical theorists, we explore the intersections of culture, politics, history and aesthetics as they emerge in dominant and critical practices of media.  Static receptions of difference tend to fixate on a linkage between image and identity, whereas a mediation of Otherness, we suggest, deconstructs the binary oppositions of Self and Other that tend to render hierarchical orders of representation.

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Lorenzo Rinelli

Department of Political Science

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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Rohan Kalyan

Department of Political Science

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

These Shores will Swarm with the Invisible Dead": Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and the Global Image of Seattle

Jason Adams

Department of Political Science

University of Hawai'i at Manoa