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Aporophobia - Why We Reject the Poor Instead of Helping Them (Hardcover)
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Aporophobia - Why We Reject the Poor Instead of Helping Them (Hardcover)
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Why "aporophobia"-rejection of the poor-is one of the most serious
problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it In this
revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina
makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the
world today is the rejection of poor people. Because we can't
recognize something we can't name, she proposes the term
"aporophobia" for the pervasive exclusion, stigmatization, and
humiliation of the poor, which cuts across xenophobia, racism,
antisemitism, and other prejudices. Passionate and powerful,
Aporophobia examines where this nearly invisible daily attack on
poor people comes from, why it is so harmful, and how we can fight
it. Aporophobia traces this universal prejudice's neurological and
social origins and its wide-ranging, pernicious consequences, from
unnoticed hate crimes to aporophobia's threat to democracy. It
sheds new light on today's rampant anti-immigrant feeling, which
Cortina argues is better understood as aporophobia than xenophobia.
We reject migrants not because of their origin, race, or ethnicity
but because they seem to bring problems while offering nothing of
value. And this is unforgivable in societies that enshrine economic
exchange as the supreme value while forgetting that we can't create
communities worth living in without dignity, generosity, and
compassion for all. Yet there is hope, and Cortina explains how we
can overcome the moral, social, and political disaster of
aporophobia through education and democratic institutions, and how
poverty itself can be eradicated if we choose. In a world of
migrant crises and economic inequality, Aporophobia is essential
for understanding and confronting one of the most serious problems
of the twenty-first century.
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