The future of post-human migration
a preface to a new theory of sameness, otherness, and identity
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Author
Publication
2012 - Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, England
Language
English
Word Count
149,750 words, Guess
Page Count
599 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101443839841
- ISBN-139781443839846
- Library of Congress Control Number2014486083
- OCLC Control Number796278620
- Open LibraryOL31299470M
Classifications
- DDC304.8
- LCCJV6013 .B36 2012
- LCCJV6013 .B364 2012
Description
"Contrary to these opposing noble lies (and other views as will be discussed in the book), migration, in relation to both the Same and the Others, is neither possible or impossible, nor desirable or undesirable, to the extent that the respective ideologues on different sides would like us to believe. Surely, this exposure of the opposing noble lies about migration does not mean that the specific field of study on migration is a waste of time, or that those interdisciplinary fields (related to the study of migration) like animal migration, gene migration, diaspora politics, culural assimlation, human trafficking, urbanization, brain drain, tourism, ethnic cleansing, environmental migration, globalization, religious persecution, national identity, gentrification, fifth column, migration art, xenophobia, space colonization, multiculturalism, and so on are worthless. Needless to say, neither of these extreme views is reasonable. Instead, this book offers an alternative, better way to understand the future of migration, especially in the dialectic context of the Same and the Others--while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them or integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other. More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the theory of the cyclical progression of migration) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way. If successful, this seminal project is to fundamentally change the way that we think about migration in relation to Sameness, Otherness, and identity, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what the author originally called its "post-human" fate."--Publisher.
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