and "Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj ?Zi?zek's notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin's notion of the optical unconscious to offer newer concepts: and "tinted glasses and ", through which we see the world; and "unit-thinking and ", which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and "coherants and ", which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible. Examining experiences at a Japanese heritage language school, a study-abroad trip to Sierra Leone, as well as in college classrooms, this book reveals the workings of unit-thinking and fetishism in diverse contexts and explores possibilities for social change and " -