Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523280to listen full audiobooks. Title: Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia Author: George Makari Narrator: Paul Heitsch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea's origins. To his astonishment, he discovered an unfolding series of never-told stories. While a fear and hatred of strangers may be ancient, he found that the notion of a dangerous bias called 'xenophobia' arose not so long ago. Coined by late nineteenth-century doctors and political commentators and popularized by an eccentric stenographer, xenophobia emerged alongside Western nationalism, colonialism, mass migration, and genocide. In this groundbreaking work, the author investigates these forces alongside the writings of figures such as Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, and Richard Wright, and innovators like Walter Lippmann, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Frantz Fanon. In the end, Of Fear and Strangers pulls together the most critical contributions, to help us comprehend the 'New Xenophobia' we now face.

Ask this episode

“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

Transcript

Related