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Sto caricando le informazioni... Who is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Classdi Emmanuel Todd
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The demographic anthropology is fascinating with Catholic zombies and the EU "cadres." Tony Judt once criticized Todd for his demographic analysis but nevertheless accepted his conclusions. The conclusions of this book are troubling but need to be examined carefully. While the future is foreboding, Todd also sees the possibility of positive solutions. ( ) Todd's book was bound to cause controversy. It appeared in its original form while feelings were still high after the killings last January. However, his critique of the emotional response and his use of demographics to breakdown and analyze the people who turned out to protest in the days after the massacre is very important. The book is very readable and adds a lot to the debate about contemporary France, the decline of religion in general and Catholicism in particular as well as the rise of xenophobia and Islamophobia that seem to be filling the Catholic void. The thesis is not perfect, there are a lot of presuppositions that are unproven and Todd has prejudices and blind spots of his own. There are a lot of turns of phrase that sound elegant in French but when translated into English sound clunky. There is a good book trying to escape from Todd's work, hopefully it will come along soon. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of 'Je suis Charlie'? In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across France and draws some unsettling conclusions. For while they claimed to support liberal, republican values, the real middle classes who marched on that day of indignant protest also had a quite different programme in mind, one that was far removed from their proclaimed ideal. Their deep values were in fact more reminiscent of the most depressing aspects of France's national history: conservatism, selfishness, domination and inequality. By identifying the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that brought France to the edge of the abyss, Todd reveals the real dangers posed to all western societies when the interests of privileged middle classes work against marginalised and immigrant groups. Should we really continue to mistreat young people, force the children of immigrants to live on the outskirts of our cities, consign the poorer classes to the remoter parts of the country, demonise Islam, and allow the growth of an ever more menacing anti-Semitism? While asking uncomfortable questions and offering no easy solutions, Todd points to the difficult and uncertain path that might lead to an accommodation with Islam rather than a deepening and divisive confrontation. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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