1. ‘Other’
COURSE CONCEPTS Hegemony
PART I Agency
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2. ‘OTHER’
The first concept
essential to our course.
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3. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
Binary thinking
Two categories with no middle
ground
Pit them against each other
Us versus them
Right versus wrong
Light versus dark
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4. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
Can you think of additional examples
of binary thinking?
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5. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
 The ‘us’ group has power
 Place people in ‘them’ category
 ‘Us’ group creates standards of
normalcy, morality, acceptability.
 ‘Them’ group or the ‘others’ have no power
 Placed in ‘them’ category by the ‘us’ group
 Considered by the ‘us’ group to be
abnormal, immoral, wrong, unacceptable.
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6. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
Historical results of
binary thinking or ‘othering’:
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7. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
Slavery
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8. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
War
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9. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
Genocide
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10. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
Discrimination
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11. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
Stereotyping
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12. ‘OTHER’ DEFINED
Can you think of additional
historical results of ‘othering’?
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13. ‘OTHER’: FLUID
‘Other’ changes over time
‘Other’ is not fixed; it is fluid
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14. ‘OTHER’: FLUID
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15. ‘OTHER’: FLUID
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16. ‘OTHER’: FLUID
Can you think of additional examples
of people who were once ‘othered’ and
are not any longer?
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17. TRANSCENDING ‘OTHERNESS’
Transcend ‘othering’
Remove binary thinking
Go above, outside, beyond
categories
Become more accepting
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18. TRANSCENDING ‘OTHERNESS’
Transgender
Gender
Masculine Feminine
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19. TRANSCENDING ‘OTHERNESS’
Can you think of additional examples
of transcending ‘otherness’?
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20. ‘OTHER’ AS MIRROR
Studying the ‘other’
Self-reflective exercise
Becomes a mirror
Expose the biases, fears of ‘us’
group
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21. ‘OTHER’ AS MIRROR
Link:
Japanese Internment Camp 21

22. ‘OTHER’: FLUID
Can you think of more historical
examples of studying the ‘other’
as a mirror?
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23. HEGEMONY & AGENCY
Two more concepts
essential to our course.
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24. HEGEMONY & AGENCY
Hegemony
Complete control over another
Remove agency from another
Agency
Free will
Assert free will in the face of hegemonic
control
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25. HEGEMONY & AGENCY
Colonization
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26. HEGEMONY & AGENCY
Can you think of additional historical
examples of hegemony and agency?
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27. HEGEMONY & AGENCY
How might someone have agency while
being hegemonically controlled?
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28. END
This ends our PowerPoint.
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