{"product_id":"land-of-strangers-book-ash-amin-9780745652184","title":"Land of Strangers","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49535201870097,"sku":"GOR008990932","price":9.39,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006588977425,"sku":"NIN9780745652184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52588310561041,"sku":"NLS9780745652184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0745652182.jpg?v=1770893802","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/land-of-strangers-buch-ash-amin-9780745652184","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}