This is fantastic stuff. I’m not even sure who Putin’s communists are…

Especially hard to do as a Muslim who has been widely vilified for being Muslim

That’s the question

I feel invited to stop pretending

As to your point about the local, I’m very into landscapes or ecosystems, particularly where these cross national borders, as new sources of macro identity that transcend the nation. But they come with their own dangers (e.g Lega Nord’s Padania)

Beautiful, as always, Ben. The point of dramaturgies of change is that you often have to lean into dominant symbols even if your ultimate aim is to challenge or undermine them. But I don’t think Starmer does that. He doesn’t try to reinterpret. Just goes for nationalism light

Ecology and Belonging explores how to create a sense of belonging that can stem the tide of fascism: nias.knaw.nl/themegroup/e...

In two projects, we are thinking about how to do this: dramaturgies of change explores how to tap into dominant symbols to trigger social change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And yet when the theory is transferred to fields like sustainability, much of the complexity of lived religion theory is lost. People have worldviews which are either problematic or positive