Taking my lead from Ric Knowles’s analysis of interculturalism 'from below’ (Knowles, 2017, 2), the focus this essay is on representation ‘otherness’ in three productions Ireland’s multi-award-winning company ANU Productions: their 2014 play Vardo about ‘travellers’ an inner-city community; 2016 Sunder, which contemporary Chinese characters were placed a centenary production failed revolution; ...

This paper draws on the work of Homi Bhabha to mount an explanation for a facet of (post)colonial racism, the “paradox of otherness” as exemplified in the racial stereotype. The paradox in question operates at the levels of discourse and identification alike. As a mode of discourse the stereotype functions to exaggerate difference of the other, whilst nevertheless attempting to produce them as ...

This essay scrutinises the ways in which students who have completed a university course on interculturality distinguish between sameness and otherness in attempts to integrate, relate to, and build a bridge to those deemed culturally different. It makes use of interviews to analyse the factors that shape the interpretation of otherness and difference in the students’ definitions of intercultur...

This paper explores the visual representation of asylum seekers and refugees delineating how English newspaper imagery constructs such groups as deviant and dangerous. A qualitative visual analysis of nine of the major national newspapers demonstrates how mediated images of asylum seekers focus upon three distinct 'visual scenarios' in the discovery of deviance, which collectively demonstrate h...

DECONSTRUCTING RADICAL DEMOCRACY Articulation, representation, and being-with-others This paper is concerned with assessing the contribution of deconstruction to democratic theory. It critically considers the usefulness of the conceptual distinction between ‘politics’ and ‘the political’ as a means of interpreting deconstruction’s relation to political questions. In particular, it critically en...