The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down

Anthropologist and UC Berkeley alum Anand Pandian (Sociocultural Anthropology, 2004) will speak from a new book about the United States called Something Between Us. The book is based on fieldwork in more than a dozen states, with everyone from homebuilders and truck drivers to activists for gender and environmental justice. The book seeks to show how our social and political impasses in the United States stem from the everyday walls that Americans have come to live with and take for granted: in their homes and on the road, for the body and the mind. It also tries to show how movements for mutual aid and solidarity can break through these barriers, making possible a different kind of collective life in the country.

Speaker: Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins University