Meaning of elsewhereism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process of thinking about something other than one's immediate surroundings.
   uncountable
2. A preference for other places; a belief that things are better or more interesting elsewhere.
   uncountable

Examples

“Indeed these old legends are in their nature subjective rather than objective, and have⟳ their roots in a primitive tendency of the human mind⟳ which might be named "elsewhereism" or " alibism."”

“For example, engaging in 'elsewhereism' (e.g., daydreaming, doodling, and texting) is but one strategy that others may use⟳ to resist⟳ superordinate's attempts to frame the interaction sequences at hand.”

“But like⟳ all things in evolution, the solutions produced by elsewhereism have⟳ created new problems .”

“Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense⟳ of historylessness, split⟳ subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation.”

“Not subject to elsewhereism.”

“The téléroman exudes both a sense⟳ of déjà vu and “elsewhereism.””

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