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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