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Información de la obraBeyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work por Tania Israel
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"This practical, politically neutral book offers concrete skills for holding meaningful conversations that cut across today's intense political divide, showing readers how to connect to the people in their lives. Political polarization is at an all-time high, and the consequences for our personal relationships are significant. Many people have friends and family members with whom they feel they can no longer communicate because of their extreme political views. In this book, psychologist Tania Israel presents her program for helping people have meaningful, constructive conversations with those they disagree with politically. Chapters show readers how to develop and use the scientifically-proven skills that are the foundation of constructive conversation, including strategies for effective listening, managing emotions, and understanding someone else's perspective, as well as finding common ground, avoiding self-righteousness, and telling your own story. Throughout, conversation prompts, practical exercises, case examples, and self-quizzes help readers visualize and practice starting, sustaining, and ending challenging conversations"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The world is divided and families have fractured over partisan divisions on issues such as abortion, immigration, and universal health care. Tania Israel’s book is based on research on how to talk to people, research that demonstrates that facts not only do not matter, they actually work to harden people’s opposition and make them more extreme. She suggests talking about why we believe what we believe in terms of our lives and our values, not with facts or research.
I can see Beyond Your Bubble being useful for families who are fracturing over political division. Few families are free of the divide created by partisanship and the delegitimization of loyal opposition. I struggled with the book for a couple reasons. First, the text sounds like a transcript of a workshop. The language level and approach is overly-simplistic and often sounds condescending. What works for a Ted Talk does not work when it is in writing because we can grasp things more quickly and refer back. Using the language you would use in a workshop when writing set my teeth on edge.
The other challenge is just plain disagreement. She thinks coming to a position of mutual respect for each other’s values is a win. I can understand that anti-vaxxers value purity, keeping chemicals, and pollutants away from their children and how much they want to protect their children. On the other hand, they kill people and endanger us all with the risk of developing vaccine-resistant viruses. Sorry, mutual respect is just not possible. I don’t want to be okay with tolerating their position. While I am certain Tania Israel has strong values, there is this quality to these exercises that remind me of Alinsky’s tools for radicals that worked equally well for reactionaries.
Beyond Your Bubble will be released on August 4th. I received an ARC from the publisher through Shelf Awareness.
Beyond Your Bubble at the American Psychological Association
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