A Vedic phrase asks us to "treat the world as family." In our age
of global crises-pandemics, climate crisis, crippling
inequality-this sentiment is more necessary than ever. Solutions to
these seemingly insurmountable problems demand new approaches to
thinking and acting locally, nationally, and transnationally,
sometimes sequentially but often simultaneously. This is the
mentality of the immigrant, the exchange student, the global
native, and all who have made a life in a new place by choice or by
necessity. Yet we suffer from a lack of the truly capacious
thinking that is so urgently needed. Vishakha N. Desai uses her
life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and
its urgency for our current moment. She weaves her narrative arc
from growing up in a Gandhian household in Ahmedabad to arriving in
the United States as a seventeen-year-old exchange student and her
subsequent career as a dancer, curator, institutional leader, and
teacher against the broad sweep of political and social changes in
the two countries she calls home. Through her personal story, Desai
reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to
lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and
national affinities. Vividly conjuring the complexities and
exhilaration of a life that is rooted in many places, World as
Family is a vital book for everyone who aspires to connect across
borders-real and perceived-and bring to fruition the ideal of a
global family.
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