On Othering: Processes and Politics of Unpeace (Global Peace Studies)

Diverse contributions that argue that celebrating differences can create peaceful solutions to problems of people, institutions, ideas, conditions, and circumstances. In every sphere of life, intolerance has split communities. The perpetuation of the Other—an “enemy” against whom prejudice is deemed acceptable—has fractured humanity, creating divisions that seemingly defy reconciliation. How, then, do we restore the bonds of connection? How do we shift from polarization to peace? Touching on race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and our relationship with the natural world from an international perspective, On Othering attends to the deep injustices brought about by othering and recommends actions for mending the relationships that are essential to renewing the possibility of peace. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 The Other Within 1. Hosting the Hostage: Hospitality, the Uyghur Other, and Chinese State-Imposed Peace 2. The Ubiquitous Other, or the Muslims of Assam: Is Peace Possible? 3. Bordering and Everyday Peace with the Other Part 2 The Marginal Other: Gender, Sexuality, and Race 4. Muslims in Italy: Rooting and Pluralism, Inequalities and Islamophobia 5. Global North Homoimperialism and the Conundrum of Queer Asylum 6. Unfree Muslims: Islamophobia and the (Im)Possibilities of Muslim Belonging in America 7. Killing Machine: How Mexican and US States of Exception Turned Revolutionaries and Migrants into 8. There Are No Signs: Feeling Black in a Post–Jim Crow America 9. Building Bridges Between Queer and Normative Muslims Part 3 Nature as Other: The Human and Non-human Relationship 10. “A Foothold in the Sheer Wall of the Future”: Extinction, Making Kin, and Imagining Peace in The 11. The Earth as a Phobic Object: Negative Ecology and the Rise of Eco-Fascism 12. “Peace” for Indigenous Peoples: Land-Based Visions of Reconciliation Afterword: Imagining People’s Peace Contributors