Question of the Day #159

"The American Disability Act has asked for the word 'handicap' to be replaced with 'disability.' Why? Because the word handicap is othering."
From the paragraph on handicapped from this article at Salon.

上記の文で、othering の意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "othering" mean?

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解答

意味： Weblioによると、


他人化。心理学において、ある物や人を未知のものや自分とは異なるものとみなす過程

discrimination, segregation等に近いが、非人間的に扱うニュアンスがあります。

Answer

According to Wiktionary:

The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien. 

Etymology/語源

Dr. Wheeler's Websiteによると、

otheringは、Edward Saidの1978年の著書Orientalismで使われた用語で、学者はしばしば大文字Otheringとして書く。（the OtherとOthernessも同様）ポストコロニアル理論、心理学、社会学、人類学において重要な概念である。

According to Dr. Wheeler's Website:

The term "othering" originates in Edward Said's influential book Orientalism, and theorists often capitalize the term as "Othering," and they do likewise with corresponding terms like "the Other," and "Otherness." It is a key concept in postcolonialism, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

Examples

• "The process of political othering was not simply a rhetorical consequence of the Revolution's own unifying political culture." The Great Nation, Colin Jones