Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
Autor David Lammyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 2021
Analiza propusă de David Lammy în Tribes pornește de la un studiu de caz personal și profund: rezultatele propriului test de acid nucleic. Aceste date genetice, care relevă o moștenire complexă ce include triburile Tuareg din Niger, Temne din Sierra Leone și Bantu din Africa de Sud, servesc drept fundament pentru a explora tensiunile identitare din societatea contemporană. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea autorului de a alterna între perspectiva subiectivă a omului politic și rigoarea cercetătorului care analizează modul în care globalizarea a redefinit apartenența la grup.
Merită menționat că textul nu se limitează la o introspecție teoretică, ci este ancorat în realitățile politice britanice recente, de la campania Windrush până la tragedia de la Grenfell Tower. Autorul, membru al Parlamentului cu o vastă experiență juridică, examinează cum instinctele tribale programate genetic pot genera colaborări remarcabile sau, dimpotrivă, polarizări periculoase în era digitală. Putem afirma că stilul este unul calculat și auto-critic, oferind o perspectivă mult mai nuanțată decât discursul public obișnuit al figurilor politice.
În ceea ce privește contextul bibliografic, Tribes acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The Tribes of Britain de David Miles, însă se diferențiază printr-o abordare mult mai axată pe sociologia politică actuală și pe experiența trăită a minorităților, spre deosebire de accentul arheologic al lui Miles. De asemenea, dacă Out of the Ashes, lucrarea anterioară a lui David Lammy, se concentra pe evenimente punctuale precum revoltele din 2011, acest volum extinde cadrul analitic către rădăcinile ancestrale și psihologice ale comportamentului de grup. Structura narativă este una fluidă, transformând o temă academică într-o lectură accesibilă, esențială pentru înțelegerea dinamicii sociale din secolul XXI.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1472128729
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Constable
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este esențială pentru studenții la sociologie și științe politice, dar și pentru cititorii interesați de justiție socială. David Lammy oferă o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care identitatea ne modelează deciziile, folosindu-și propria genealogie ca punct de plecare. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai profundă a forțelor care divizează societatea modernă și a mecanismelor prin care nevoia de apartenență poate fi transformată într-un instrument constructiv pentru comunitate.
Descriere
David was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School and practised as a barrister before entering politics. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Tottenham since 2000. Today, David is one of Parliament's most prominent and successful campaigners for social justice. He led the campaign for Windrush British citizens to be granted British citizenship and has been at the forefront of the fight for justice for the families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.
In 2007, inspired by the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and looking to explore his own African roots, David Lammy took a DNA test. Ostensibly he was a middle-aged husband & father, MP for Tottenham and a die-hard Spurs fan. But his nucleic acids revealed that he was 25% Tuareg tribe (Niger), 25% Temne tribe (Sierra Leone), 25% Bantu tribe (South Africa), with 5% traces of Celtic Scotland and a mishmash of other unidentified groups.
Both memoir and call-to-arms, Tribes explores both the benign and malign effects of our need to belong. How this need - genetically programmed and socially acquired - can manifest itself in positive ways, collaboratively achieving great things that individuals alone cannot. And yet how, in recent years, globalisation and digitisation have led to new, more pernicious kinds of tribalism. This book is a fascinating and perceptive analysis of not only the way the world works but also the way we really are.
Recenzii
A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who knows its author only from his Twitter persona
Episodes of memoir, including DNA tests, a police frisking and a death threat, enliven the Labour MP's first-rate study of social division
It is rich, in thought, history, anecdote and experience
The best section of the book is a sympathetic account of why people voted Brexit from a zealous Remainer MP who insists Brexit is driven by xenophobia
Tribes examines how to bring together a fractious country without smothering legitimate political grievances in the process
Absorbing analysis . . . thoughtful, nuanced book . . . this book asks the right questions
Blends memoir with shrewd analysis of the current political landscape . . . He interrogates subjects such
as polarisation, tribalism and identity politics with aplomb, bringing in voices from opposing backgrounds
and views . . . The most powerful parts of the book, though, are the explorations of his own compulsion to belong
A vital contribution to the political debate
Ambitious . . . [this book] helps us understand aspects of tribalism
Navigating diverse cultures taught him to appreciate different perspectives, and makes him an incisive diagnostician of our familiar ills - economic decline, political polarisation and terrible loneliness. But Lammy also has inspiring ideas for putting things right
A fascinating and thought-provoking reflective journey across cultures, centuries and continents. This book
will become a classic and an important tool for anyone studying social and political history and the rapidly changing dynamics of tribalism
Compelling reading for understanding the rich lifeblood of our incredible shared city and the forces which shape us
'A fascinating and thought-provoking reflective journey across cultures, centuries and continents. This book
will become a classic and an important tool for anyone studying social and political history and the rapidly changing dynamics of tribalism' Floella Benjamin
In 2007, inspired by the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and looking to explore his own African roots, David Lammy took a DNA test. Ostensibly he was a middle-aged husband and father, MP for Tottenham and a die-hard Spurs fan. But David's nucleic acids revealed something else: that he was 25% Tuareg tribe (Niger), 25% Temne tribe (Sierra Leone), 25% Bantu tribe (South Africa), with 5% traces of Celtic Scotland and a mishmash of other unidentified groups. These DNA results gave him something that he had longed for: something more than a biography, backstory or even a culture.
From Africa to Europe via the Caribbean, Tribes is a fascinating exploration of both the benign and malign effects of our very human need to belong. How this need - genetically programmed and socially acquired - can manifest itself in positive ways, collaboratively achieving great things that individuals alone cannot. And yet how, in recent years, globalisation and digitisation have led to new, more pernicious kinds of tribalism.
Part poignant memoir, part compelling call-to-arms, Tribes is also a highly perceptive analysis of not only the way the world works but also the way we are by one of Parliament's most prominent and successful campaigners for social justice. More importantly, it demonstrates just how we can all move beyond our own tribes...
'Rich, in thought, history, anecdote and experience' Alastair Campbell, The New European
'Absorbing. . . thoughtful, nuanced' Observer