by "Garys Economics"

tl.dw. the rich are buying it all

by "Garys Economics"

tl.dw. the rich are buying it all

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May 14, 2025 | This webinar will explore the intersection of religion, gender, and populism in contemporary political and social landscapes. Populist movements frequently invoke religious and gendered narratives to define national identity, mobilize support, and justify exclusionary policies. From Christian nationalism in the United States to right-wing populism in Europe and Latin America, these movements often use traditional gender norms to bolster their legitimacy.

A global comparative approach is essential to understanding how these dynamics operate across different political and cultural contexts. Populist actors often borrow tactics from one another, and religious-nationalist discourses are increasingly transnational, influencing policies on gender, sexuality, and religious freedom beyond national borders.

In this webinar, scholars will share notes from the field based on their research in diverse settings, offering grounded insights into how religious and gendered narratives function within populist movements. By bringing together perspectives from multiple regions, this discussion will illuminate both broader patterns and local specificities of religious populism, offering insights relevant for scholars, policymakers, and civil society actors worldwide.

The webinar will be moderated by Berkley Center Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari. The discussion will feature distinguished scholars Didem Unal Abaday, Ruth Braunstein, Tatiana Vargas Maia, and Elżbieta Korolczuk.

May 14, 2025 | This webinar will explore the intersection of religion, gender, and populism in contemporary political and social landscapes. Populist movements frequently invoke religious and gendered narratives to define national identity, mobilize support, and justify exclusionary policies. From Christian nationalism in the United States to right-wing populism in Europe and Latin America, these movements often use traditional gender norms to bolster their legitimacy.

A global comparative approach is essential to understanding how these dynamics operate across different political and cultural contexts. Populist actors often borrow tactics from one another, and religious-nationalist discourses are increasingly transnational, influencing policies on gender, sexuality, and religious freedom beyond national borders.

In this webinar, scholars will share notes from the field based on their research in diverse settings, offering grounded insights into how religious and gendered narratives function within populist movements. By bringing together perspectives from multiple regions, this discussion will illuminate both broader patterns and local specificities of religious populism, offering insights relevant for scholars, policymakers, and civil society actors worldwide.

The webinar will be moderated by Berkley Center Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari. The discussion will feature distinguished scholars Didem Unal Abaday, Ruth Braunstein, Tatiana Vargas Maia, and Elżbieta Korolczuk.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30211126

Author is: Cities By Diana. There are some urbanism themes.

Video description:

We are in a recession. The indicators are everywhere. Bad vibes, rage bait, AI generated slop content filling our for you feeds. Some may debate whether or not we are actually in financial recession, but there’s more to this recession than economic indicators. We are in a romance recession, an empathy recession, a creativity recession, a sincerity recession, a friendship recession, a vibes recession.

There’s this feeling that you can’t say or do the things you used to without being censored, or worse being called CRINGE. Everyone around you is busy, stressed, overwhelmed or generally disengaged from life. The quality of everything has reduced - products break sooner, food tastes worse. Every app has enshittified and become flooded with advertisements and negativity. entry-level jobs requiring years of experience, multiple rounds of interviews that if you even get through it all you get a lowball offer.

Dating apps have killed the traditional ways to find love and romance, and those have enshittified to the point where they are unusable, any alternatives like meeting people in the real world now seem more difficult than ever with the loss of third spaces and car-centric design of cities in the west, places where people do gather requiting a substantial purchase simply to exist in public life. Any time you leave the house it feels like you spend a hundred dollars or more.

We’ve been told for the past couple of years that the economy is booming, unemployment is at an all time low, we have the entire sum of everything ever known in the palm of our hands.

Yet we are all tired, lonely, broke, afraid or unable to do anything. Comments sections online are full of arguments, even on morally or politically neutral topics. We misunderstand each other, often deliberately. Some of us spend more time talking to ChatGPT than we do our own friends and family members. We are the most comfortable, most technologically advanced and most well educated generation in human history - yet we are miserable, lonely and stuck in a recession deeper than just economic. We are in a recession of the heart and mind.

Author is: Cities By Diana. There are some urbanism themes.

Video description:

We are in a recession. The indicators are everywhere. Bad vibes, rage bait, AI generated slop content filling our for you feeds. Some may debate whether or not we are actually in financial recession, but there’s more to this recession than economic indicators. We are in a romance recession, an empathy recession, a creativity recession, a sincerity recession, a friendship recession, a vibes recession.

There’s this feeling that you can’t say or do the things you used to without being censored, or worse being called CRINGE. Everyone around you is busy, stressed, overwhelmed or generally disengaged from life. The quality of everything has reduced - products break sooner, food tastes worse. Every app has enshittified and become flooded with advertisements and negativity. entry-level jobs requiring years of experience, multiple rounds of interviews that if you even get through it all you get a lowball offer.

Dating apps have killed the traditional ways to find love and romance, and those have enshittified to the point where they are unusable, any alternatives like meeting people in the real world now seem more difficult than ever with the loss of third spaces and car-centric design of cities in the west, places where people do gather requiting a substantial purchase simply to exist in public life. Any time you leave the house it feels like you spend a hundred dollars or more.

We’ve been told for the past couple of years that the economy is booming, unemployment is at an all time low, we have the entire sum of everything ever known in the palm of our hands.

Yet we are all tired, lonely, broke, afraid or unable to do anything. Comments sections online are full of arguments, even on morally or politically neutral topics. We misunderstand each other, often deliberately. Some of us spend more time talking to ChatGPT than we do our own friends and family members. We are the most comfortable, most technologically advanced and most well educated generation in human history - yet we are miserable, lonely and stuck in a recession deeper than just economic. We are in a recession of the heart and mind.