The Trouble with Freedom
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8541-9 (ISBN)
An illuminating account of how Americans have been divided by the very value that unites them.
America today is being torn apart by the struggle over a single concept, deeply rooted in the country’s sense of self: freedom. Battered by wave after wave of crises, ordinary people of all political persuasions have come to feel that their freedom is under threat – and with it, nothing less than the soul of the nation.
In The trouble with freedom, journalist and researcher Melissa Butcher takes a trip into the ferociously polarised world of American politics, hoping to find out what’s going on beneath the surface. Criss-crossing the country, she talks to a wide range of people: Democrat and Republican, gay and straight, urban and rural, immigrants, First Nations, Black, white, the incarcerated.
What she discovers is that political conflict is often the outcome of very personal experiences of managing cultural change. Exploring the different ways freedom has been used to define what it means to be American, Butcher encounters anger and distrust, but also untapped possibilities for empathy and care. -- .
Melissa Butcher is Education Programme Director at the social enterprise Cumberland Lodge and Professor Emeritus of Social and Cultural Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. A former journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, she is the author of two books, five edited collections and numerous pieces of journalism and travelogues. -- .
1 All change
2 Defending freedom, saving America
3 Re-Imagining free movement: El Paso/Ciudad Juarez
4 ‘Power and control, baby’: stories of (un)freedom and (in)justice
5 Let’s hear it for the girl
6 Teaching freedom: the (mis-)education of America
7 The many incarnations of Jesus Christ’s love
8 How to become a libertarian: ‘don’t hit other people, don’t take their stuff and keep your promises’
9 The enchantments of medical freedom and future dystopias
10 ‘It all turns on affection’: family, freedom and the land
11 ‘Figuring out’ the future, writing new freedoms
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8541-5 / 1526185415 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8541-9 / 9781526185419 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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