Daniel Hopkins, author of Stable Condition: Elites' Limited Influence on Health Care Attitudes:
Distance is central to social life but rarely studied. In this pioneering, synthesizing book, Cortina shows how distance shapes our interactions with the social world on topics ranging from climate change to school shootings. Social scientists and engaged citizens alike will need to keep this book close.

Johanna Dunaway, coauthor of News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era:
This important book reveals the underrecognized role of distance, space, and place in shaping political attitudes and behaviors. Moreover, it does so in a theoretically rich and multidisciplinary way, which can speak to the role of distance and space as they intersect with other fields.