LEADER 04384nam 2200757 450 001 9910809409403321 005 20230511193625.0 010 $a1-5036-2954-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503629547 035 $a(CKB)4970000000171288 035 $a(DE-B1597)609945 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503629547 035 $aEBL7012564 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL7012564 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7012564 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944448 035 $a(PPN)26441666X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994970000000171288 100 $a20230118d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA decent meal $ethe search for empathy in a divided America /$fMichael Carolan 210 1$aStanford, California :$cRedwood Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-5036-1328-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$t1 Journeys to the Heartland --$t2 How Would You Stomach That? --$t3 We?re Being Pulled Apart --$t4 Farming Familiarity --$t5 Working to Respect Those Who Fed Us --$t6 Urban- Rural Food Plans --$t7 Forest to Table --$t8 Final Thoughts and New Trajectories --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aA poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat? This book is the result of Carolan's career-long efforts to create simulations in which food could be used to build empathy, among even the staunchest of rivals. Though most people assume that presenting facts will sway the way the public behaves, time and again this assumption is proven wrong as we all selectively accept the facts that support our beliefs. Drawing on the data he has collected, Carolan argues that we must, instead, find places and practices where incivility?or worse, hate?is suspended and leverage those opportunities into tools for building social cohesion. Each chapter follows the individuals who participated in a given experiment, ranging from strawberry-picking, attempting to subsist on SNAP benefits, or attending a dinner of wild game. By engaging with participants before, during, and after, Carolan is able to document their remarkable shifts in attitude and opinion. Though this book is framed around food, it is really about the spaces opened up by our need for food, in our communities, in our homes, and, ultimately, in our minds. 606 $aSocial groups$zUnited States$xPsychological aspects 606 $aEmpathy$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aAttitude change$zUnited States$xExperiments 606 $aSocial psychology$zUnited States 606 $aRight and left (Political science)$zUnited States 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 606 $aAttitude (Psychology)$zUnited States 610 $aClass. 610 $aEmpathy. 610 $aFood. 610 $aInequality. 610 $aJustice. 610 $aKnowledge. 610 $aMotivated Reasoning. 610 $aPolarization. 610 $aRace. 610 $aRural-Urban Divide. 615 0$aSocial groups$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aEmpathy$xSocial aspects 615 0$aAttitude change$xExperiments. 615 0$aSocial psychology 615 0$aRight and left (Political science) 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aAttitude (Psychology) 676 $a152.41 700 $aCarolan$b Michael S.$0769486 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809409403321 996 $aA decent meal$94127136 997 $aUNINA