[PDF] Solidarity Of Strangers eBook

Author : Jodi Dean
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520378547

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Solidarity of Strangers is a crucial intervention in feminist, multicultural, and legal debates that will ignite a rethinking of the meaning of difference, community, and participatory democracy. Arguing for a solidarity rooted in a respect for difference, Dean offers a broad vision of the shape of postmodern democracies that moves beyond the limitations and dangers of identity politics. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Author : Lynn Hollen Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1998-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521572613

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A study of English policies toward the poor from the 1600s to the present, showing how clients and officials negotiated welfare settlements.

Author : Lawrence Wilde
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 074867456X

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This book explores the development of the goal of human solidarity at a time when the processes of globalisation offer the conditions for the development of a harmonious global community.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509512209

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Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.

Author : Danielle Allen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226014681

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"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship." Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us. Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy working—and offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.

Author : Gernot Saalmann
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2002
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Zusammenfassung: In spite of any ideology of smallscale communities, solidarity seems possible even in our modern society. To show this, a distinction is made between four kinds of solidarity. The argument for the possibility of 'reflexive solidarity' between autonomous individuals is based on an examination of our orientation in social space, the processes in that strangers are constructed and the deeply human longing for recognition and selfesteem. All these phenomena occur on three different levels that concern cognition, emotion and interaction norms. There is a close connection between the chances for one ́s recognition by others and her/ his attitude towards them. The less one treats them as strangers, the more likely are real interaction and communication that form the basis of recognition as well as of the idea and the feeling of solidarity. Social solidarity flows from human selfinterest and does not result from any moral presciption

Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1466889063

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This thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met." Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them-from Augustine to Bosch, from Rousseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and moving, The Needs of Strangers returns philosophy to its proper place, as a guide to the art of being human.

Author : Ronald J. Angel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000436357

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As the 21st Century unfolds, the traditional welfare state that evolved during the 20th Century faces serious threats to the solidarity that social programs were meant to strengthen. The rise of populist and nationalist parties reflects the decline of a sense of belonging and inclusiveness that mass education and economic progress were meant to foster, as traditional politics and parties are rejected by working- and middle-class individuals who were previously their staunchest supporters. Increasingly, these groups reject the growing gaps in income, power, and privilege that they perceive between themselves and highly educated and cosmopolitan business, academic, and political elites. When Strangers Become Family examines the potential role of civil society organizations in guaranteeing the rights and addressing the needs of vulnerable groups, paying particular attention to their role in advocacy for and service delivery to older people. The book includes a discussion of the origins and functions of this sector that focuses on the relationship between the state and non-governmental organizations, as well as a close examination of Mexico – a middle-income nation with a rapidly aging population and limited state welfare for older people. The data reveals important aspects of the relationship among government actors, civil society organizations, and political parties. Ronald Angel and Verónica Montes-de-Oca Zavala ask the fundamental question about the extent to which civil society organizations represent a potential mechanism whereby vulnerable individuals can join together to further their own interests and exercise their individual and group autonomy.

Author : Shui-yin Sharon Yam
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780814214091

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Examines how three transnational groups in Hong Kong use familial narratives to promote critical empathy and decenter the oppressive logics behind dominant citizenship discourses.

Author : Ash Amin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745660622

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The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive pluralism and hybridity of modern living in the West is being rejected in an age of heightened anxiety over the future and drummed up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents are expected to stay away, or to conform and integrate, as they come to be framed in an optic of the social as interpersonal or communitarian. Judging these developments as dangerous, this book offers a counter-argument by looking to relations that are not reducible to local or social ties in order to offer new suggestions for living in diversity and for forging a different politics of the stranger. The book explains the balance between positive and negative public feelings as the synthesis of habits of interaction in varied spaces of collective being, from the workplace and urban space, to intimate publics and tropes of imagined community. The book proposes a series of interventions that make for public being as both unconscious habit and cultivated craft of negotiating difference, radiating civilities of situated attachment and indifference towards the strangeness of others. It is in the labour of cultivating the commons in a variety of ways that Amin finds the elements for a new politics of diversity appropriate for our times, one that takes the stranger as there, unavoidable, an equal claimant on ground that is not pre-allocated.