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.
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