{"product_id":"land-of-strangers-hardback-9780745652177","title":"Land of Strangers (Hardback) 9780745652177","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLand of Strangers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAsh Amin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745652177, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 March 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.395 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Amin's unbated curiousity and inquisitiveness allow him to reinvigorate established social and political theories that aspire to formulate inclusive identities and spaces for the integration of the stranger, while acknowledging that the current economic and political conditions of imposed austerity measures and the rise of the Far Right do not favour this much-needed experimentation and disengagement.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘This is a brilliant and illuminating book. Ash Amin relentlessly dispels clichés about modern society in reader-friendly prose; more positively, he explores ways to manage the complexities with which we live.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Sennett, London School of Economics and New York University\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e‘The prize is an important one: to forge a politics of belonging that does not prejudge the meaning of belonging and allows solidarity to coexist between the parties involved. After reading this brilliant book, I am convinced that such a politics is possible and could help to extend civility in ways that we are only just beginning to think about. Reviewers tend to overuse the phrase \"essential reading\" but this book really is.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNigel Thrift, University of Warwick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘An insightful and genuinely interdisciplinary exploration of the moral and material basis of how to nurture a sense of togetherness in a society of relative strangers. Both analytical and normative, the book opens up imaginative ways of building a sense of the commons in a volatile and alienated social universe.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eProfessor Lord Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Freight of Social Ties\u003cbr\u003e2. Collaborating Strangers\u003cbr\u003e3. Strangers in the City\u003cbr\u003e4. Remainders of Race\u003cbr\u003e5. Imagined Community\u003cbr\u003e6. A Calamitous End?\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Geography%20%5BRG%5D%22\"\u003eRG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407322542360,"sku":"9780745652177","price":42.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745652177.jpg?v=1784161827","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/land-of-strangers-hardback-9780745652177","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}