i'm trying to walk a really ine line in the book, because these two traditions of democracy have often been opposed to one another. And i'm trying to take an approach that's sensitive to the limits of each of them but also suggests there's actually ways of bringing them together. So where republicanism leaves you sort of open to this sort of ity of the mass et, your rights are always being negotiated,. That can leave you quite venerable. A liberalism offers you this guarantee of rights, and that can be quite useful. But vice versa e, where liberalism has the useo so very stark forms of inclusion, belonging a and even of dividing humanity, an republicanism can open
In an increasingly polarised world, it’s not often we get books saying that difference is our greatest strength. But Farhan Samanani is a Canadian social anthropologist, whose recent book, How to Live with Each Other, does just that. It looks at how communities thrive when embracing their diversity. Farhan’s work and studies have taken him around the world but it’s the local, yet no less global, streets of Kilburn, a neighbourhood in northwest London, which informs much of his work. He's joined in conversation by Dipo Faloyin, senior editor and writer at VICE, and author of the book Africa is Not a Country, which focuses on issues of diversity and identity across the African continent.
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