Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa ClausInvestigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj ieks notion of fetish and Walter Benjamins 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

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Examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges and demonstrates that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood

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