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Inventing the Ties That Bind - Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life (Hardcover)
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Inventing the Ties That Bind - Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life (Hardcover)
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At a time of deep political divisions, leaders have called on
ordinary Americans to talk to one another: to share their stories,
listen empathetically, and focus on what they have in common, not
what makes them different. In Inventing the Ties that Bind,
Francesca Polletta questions this popular solution for healing our
rifts. Talking the way that friends do is not the same as equality,
she points out. And initiatives that bring strangers together for
friendly dialogue may provide fleeting experiences of intimacy, but
do not supply the enduring ties that solidarity requires. But
Polletta also studies how Americans cooperate outside such
initiatives, in social movements, churches, unions, government, and
in their everyday lives. She shows that they often act on behalf of
people they see as neighbors, not friends, as allies, not
intimates, and people with whom they have an imagined relationship,
not a real one. To repair our fractured civic landscape, she
argues, we should draw on the rich language of solidarity that
Americans already have.
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