Building an Economics of Belonging - Toward Belonging Digital Dialogue
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About this event
Join us on December 10 for the third in our Toward Belonging digital dialogue series for a discussion about the possibilities and potential of an economics based on belonging.
Representative democracies have seen the liberal post-war consensus challenged by various forms of populist, nationalist, and breaking politics. The United States offers a troubling display of deep polarisation while Europe offers a set of fragmenting and dissenting societies. The debate around these deep divisions has too often pitted cultural vs economic explanations.
In this live webinar, panelists will explore the potential of the role of economics in creating belonging in and across national and local communities and groups.
The discussion will center around ideas presented in Martin Sandbu's recent book, The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All. Martin is an economics writer for the Financial Times and author of its "Free Lunch" weekly newsletter on the global economic policy debate (sent out by lunchtime in Europe).
Speakers who will join Martin in the conversation include:
Catherine Fieschi, Counterpoint Director and author of Populocracy;
Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Director of Food Labor Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
Simon Reid-Henry, Director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Science at Queen Mary University of London, Counterpoint Associate, and author of Empire of Democracy.
December 10: 5:00 pm–6:30 UK; Noon–1:30 pm EST; 9:00–10:30 am PST
Watch on YouTube or Facebook Live.
Discussion with Q&A via chat from audience members. Live captioning (English) is provided at this link.
Stay connected: Follow the new #TowardBelonging accounts on Twitter and Instagram and tweet questions to #towardbelonging.
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Toward Belonging is a partnership initiative of the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, More in Common, Counterpoint UK, Sciences Po Paris, and Queen Mary University of London, along with a growing network of social change partners.
Toward Belonging was formed to connect work across geographies and disciplines that can mount a challenge to rising authoritarianism, widening inequality, and a politics based on hate, exclusion, and division. Toward Belonging offers ideas for a world based on belonging, where we take care of each other and our planet, and where we insist and work towards a world where there is no “them,” only a new and bigger “we.”
Details about this initiative and all events in this series at belonging.berkeley.edu/towardbelonging
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Organizer Othering & Belonging Institute
Organizer of Building an Economics of Belonging - Toward Belonging Digital Dialogue
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change. We are a diverse and vibrant hub generating work centered on realizing a world where all people belong, where belonging entails being respected at a level that includes the right to both contribute and make demands upon society and political and cultural institutions.
The Othering & Belonging Institute responds to issues that require both immediate action and long-term strategy. The Institute engages in innovative communications, arts and cultural strategy, and strategic narrative work that attempts to re-frame the public discourse from a dominant narrative of control and fear towards one that recognizes the humanity of all people, cares for the earth, and celebrates our inherent interconnectedness.
