When solidarity shifts something within people
Sociologist Georg Simmel described the modern city as a place where strangers coexist in close proximity, learning to keep an emotional distance from one another. Being at the Jantar Mantar protest site made me wonder whether solidarity can undo that distance. In this Quick Take, I look at how protests undo the distance.
Sociologist Georg Simmel described the modern city as a place where strangers coexist in close proximity, learning to keep an emotional distance from one another. Being at the Jantar Mantar protest site made me wonder whether solidarity can undo that distance. In this Quick Take, I look at how protests undo the distance.
