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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

First, there is existential insecurity, a fact of human experience, a kind of beautiful insecurity that comes with being a vulnerable being, an entity that can be wounded physically or psychologically, that is aware of its mortality. How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security?

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Dunning writes, “Using racially coded language, white elites identified African American teenagers in urban neighborhoods as psychologically stunted rather than as victims of discrimination and structural disadvantage.” 11 White elites “remained resistant to more redistributive efforts such as tax reform or a federal jobs program….Instead,

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

There is even a political tendency at the time called Solidarism which proposes that solidarity is the solution to problems arising from the Industrial Revolution—and puts forward social policies and ideas about the role of the state. RR: I want to discuss the psychological dimensions of solidarity.