A new report from Frameworks Institute on race+place discourse.

Frameworks was one of the first places I used as a resource when I started doing policy + advocacy communications.

Their whole thing is how to use brain science and EXTENSIVE research to shift cultural discourse around some pretty heavy issues -- counteracting the triggers and dog whistles the Right always deploys so well.

Their work exists someplace beyond communications. I love their stuff.

#StrategicComms
#BrainScience
#Comms #CulturalDiscourse #Narrative #CultureShifting

https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/publication/the-terrain-of-spatial-justice/

The Terrain of Spatial Justice

Racism is built into places. It shapes who can live where, how resources are distributed, who gets a say over what happens in places, and more. Places in the United States reflect, perpetuate, and...

Sociocracy Conference 2023 - Sociocracy For All

May your power be with you Online: May 4 and 5 2023 Across all timezones. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors who are all strong supporters of sociocracy and related systems!Even […]

“The aspiration represented he is that, if we cannot beat the rich, we can at least make fun of them, trick them, outsmart them and out-humanize them. This vibe shift is not of the revolutionary ilk; it’s of the existential one. The system is a game; this game may be unfair, but the rules are arbitrary; everything is invented, so why not have fun with it?”

https://andjelicaaa.substack.com/p/the-other-vibe-shift

#vibeshift #CultureShifting #culture #socialcritique #tvfilm #aspirational

The other vibe shift

The court jester era

The Sociology of Business

“Most of the work of institution-formation — most of the freezing and thawing — takes place far away from formal politics, via other mechanisms. It happens in civil society, or progressive businesses, or at the frontier of technology, or in comedy clubs, or in conversations with friends.” - @jamestplunkett

https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett/the-stuff-of-politics-c7dc87786771

#institutions #CultureShifting #politics #society #publicpolicy #government

The stuff of politics - James Plunkett - Medium

I think the answer is institutions, but that just raises more questions. What are institutions? And how, as material, do they behave? In this post I want to share a metaphor that conveys the material…

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