5/24/2023 0 Comments The other americans laila lalami![]() ![]() Yet both produce anxiety and lead down distinct paths of either building walls or mending fences. The latter requires true engagement with a person. It’s easier to demonize (and consume) than to sympathize from physical proximity. It protects from difference: of skin color, culture, and opinion. In this sense, community functions as a collective imagination that guards nation, neighborhood, and personal space. On the other hand, when traced back to its Latin roots in communitas, Esposito finds it defined by indebtedness and reciprocity, race and citizenship notwithstanding.Īpproaching immigration from these definitions helps contextualize how mass media has easily constructed otherness out of immigrants, seen as outsiders who “invade” borders. He concludes that, in today’s body politic, community has come to mean “property,” belonging to subjects joined together, delimited by borders. ![]() ![]() IN HIS BOOK Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, Italian political philosopher Roberto Esposito analyzes the sociopolitical and etymological constructs of community. ![]()
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