Land of Strangers
ISBN: 9780745652184 | 0745652182
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 5/22/2012
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The impersonality of social relationships within 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 Western life is being rejected in an age of heightened futuristic anxiety and drummed-up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents are expected to stay away, or to conform and integrate, as they become framed in an optic of the social as interpersonal or communitarian. Judging th... MORE
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Freight of Social Ties | p. 12 |
| Collaborating Strangers | p. 35 |
| Strangers in the City | p. 59 |
| Remainders of Race | p. 83 |
| Imagined Community | p. 111 |
| A Calamitous End? | p. 137 |
| Epilogue | p. 165 |
| Bibliography | p. 171 |
| Index | p. 191 |
| Ta... MORE |
Ash Amin is the 1931 Chair of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
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