Increasingly, we think and act as if the divides between us are unbridgeable: rather than reaching out and finding paths to reconciliation, we bunker down, create filter bubbles, build walls and gentrify neighbourhoods in a great rush to find our tribe and isolate ourselves within it. As crisis after crisis hits us, we find ourselves unable to agree even on what is happening around us, much less on how we should act. Here, anthropologist Farhan Samanani mixes case studies from across the world with his own research to provide insights into not just how we behave - but why.

Using his anthropologist's toolkit, he explores how we got here, and casts fresh light on how we can cultivate common ground and not just live but flourish together.