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(2016) Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Kathinka Frøystad criticizes the tendency of anchoring the alter-political imagination of alternative futures in studies of radical alterity of the kind favored by a vocal section of the ontological turn. Such studies are certainly useful for reassessing the nature/culture distinction that perpetuates climate change. Yet their tendency to analyze cosmologies, religions, and "worlds' as distinct and contrasting carries an uncanny Abrahamic echo besides feeding into a lethal politics of difference. Drawing on ethnography from a multi-faith neighborhood in the North-Indian city of Kanpur, Frøystad argues that, it is equally relevant to look for "osmotic worlding" as for "different worlds". To develop an alter-political project of rethinking religious plurality, the first step must be to dismantle the very idea of radical alterity.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_10
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Frøystad, K. (2016)., Alter-politics reconsidered: from different worlds to osmotic worlding, in B. Enge bertelsen & S. Bendixsen (eds.), Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 229-252.
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