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Defamiliarization
- Defamiliarization or ostranenie (Russian: остранение, IPA: [ɐstrɐˈnʲenʲɪjə]) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so they could gain new perspectives and see the world differently.
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Sep 11, 2013 · Making the familiar strange is not only about how we see the world. It’s about how other people see us and the work we do. I have been usefully reminded how making the familiar strange is a personal as well as a political process.
Feb 14, 2013 · I’m of the view that the notion of making the familiar strange is actually first of all about the researcher’s state of being. It’s about how we actually ARE as researchers in the world. (In other words it’s as much ontological as it is epistemological and methodological).
Jul 23, 2021 · The cultural anthropologist’s goal during fieldwork is to describe a group of people to others in a way that makes strange or unusual features of the culture seem familiar and familiar traits seem extraordinary.
Jun 13, 2016 · There also needs to be a commitment to inquiry – to making the familiar strange – that compels one to see and think about things differently. This allows one to ask new questions, or hidden questions, or sometimes even obvious questions. It also allows one to notice things that others don’t.
Nov 30, 2022 · What it means is simple: the point is to complicate the things we take for granted, and question them the way an outside would; we take the things typically considered the ‘Other’ and make them more relatable, and more similar to what it is that we recognise.
Nov 30, 2020 · Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to ‘make the familiar strange’, and how this approach benefits sociological research and theory, it draws on four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and defamiliarization.
Feb 18, 2023 · But what does this mean in human terms, and why is it so? To begin to address these questions, I propose a thought-experiment that borrows from my home discipline, anthropology, where we set out to make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange.
