Political polarisation, An anthropologist's guide to naming
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Political polarisation in America. Laurie Taylor talks to Marc Hetherington, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, about why distrust of the opposite party is now so common in the US. Is the same pattern emerging in Britain? They're joined by Robert Ford, Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester. Also, an anthropologist's guide to names and naming with Barbara Bodenhorn, Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
| 0:06.2 | much more about thinking aloud. Go to our website at BBC.co.uk. UK. They call me help. |
| 0:14.0 | They call me Stacy. |
| 0:15.0 | They call me her. |
| 0:17.0 | They call me Jane. |
| 0:18.0 | That's not my name. |
| 0:20.0 | That's not my name. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, they call me Bell, they call me Stacy, they call me her, they call me Jane. |
| 0:27.0 | That's not my name. |
| 0:28.0 | Mary Jolisa, always the same. |
| 0:32.0 | That's not my name. And that track by Ting Tings astutely captures the emotional consequences of being |
| 0:41.5 | misidentified mislabeled. What happens to your sense |
| 0:45.3 | of self when you're referred to merely as thingy, or what's his name, or darling or sweetie, |
| 0:51.6 | or when your name is mispronounced. |
| 0:53.7 | Please welcome the next speaker in our plenary session on neoliberalism, |
| 0:58.0 | Professor Gary Naylor. |
| 1:00.0 | Now I'm sure there are many excellent people in the world called Gary, but I just know that I could never be one of them. |
| 1:05.8 | They're simply not me. |
| 1:07.5 | In much the same way that I know that I wouldn't have enjoyed my adolescent fleeing with Diana from Brownmore Youth Club, half as much if her name hadn't been given such a powerful erotic booths by Paul Anker. |
| 1:18.0 | And would I spend so many tedious months escorting Seyfield College for girls sixth former name Carol if it hadn't been for Chuck Berry's dashing |
| 1:26.1 | testimonial. Well so many of you emailed in with other intriguing questions and naming practices that we decided to invite a social anthropologist |
| 1:36.8 | to provide some answers. |
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