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A decent meal : the search for empathy in a divided America / / Michael Carolan



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Autore: Carolan Michael S. Visualizza persona
Titolo: A decent meal : the search for empathy in a divided America / / Michael Carolan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Redwood Press, , [2021]
©2021
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 152.41
Soggetto topico: Social groups - United States - Psychological aspects
Empathy - Social aspects - United States
Attitude change - United States - Experiments
Social psychology - United States
Right and left (Political science) - United States
Public opinion - United States
Attitude (Psychology) - United States
Soggetto non controllato: Class
Empathy
Food
Inequality
Justice
Knowledge
Motivated Reasoning
Polarization
Race
Rural-Urban Divide
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Journeys to the Heartland -- 2 How Would You Stomach That? -- 3 We’re Being Pulled Apart -- 4 Farming Familiarity -- 5 Working to Respect Those Who Fed Us -- 6 Urban- Rural Food Plans -- 7 Forest to Table -- 8 Final Thoughts and New Trajectories -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: A 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.
Titolo autorizzato: A decent meal  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5036-2954-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809409403321
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