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22.08.2017 | Book Review

Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in the Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a Journey to the Heart of Our Political Divide

New York: The New Press, 2016. 351 pp. $27.95. ISBN: 978-1620972250

verfasst von: Robert Zussman

Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 5/2017

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I asked to review Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers in the Land, a few weeks before the 2016 presidential election. I asked to review the book for several reasons. First, I greatly admire Hochschild’s work. Her Managed Heart, an extended argument that emotions are not only produced socially but can and have been produced for commercial purposes, is, in my view, an extraordinary accomplishment, a book that expands the borders of the social sciences while suggesting new ways of thinking about alienation and authenticity. Her Second Shift and The Time Bind have done the nearly impossible, breathing new life into long standing debates about gender and the “balance” between work and family. Second, like a whole lot of other people, I was puzzled—maybe bewildered is more accurate--by the rise of Trump and Trumpism. Who better than Hochschild, a sociologist I admire and a card carrying left liberal (like myself) to help me understand? Third, I knew, or thought I knew how I would begin the review. “The barbarians, the deplorables,” I would write, “are no longer at the gates. Democracy,” I would continue, “is safe for another four years.” And then I would argue, magnanimous in victory, that we should nonetheless make every effort to understand what drove an insurgency against elites in both major parties, even in its failure. …

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Titel
Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in the Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a Journey to the Heart of Our Political Divide
New York: The New Press, 2016. 351 pp. $27.95. ISBN: 978-1620972250
verfasst von
Robert Zussman
Publikationsdatum
22.08.2017
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Society / Ausgabe 5/2017
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-017-0177-y

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