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November 13, 2024

Belonging without Othering

On November 13th, 2024, john powell spoke at a forum hosted by UNESCO and Novact in Barcelona. john provided the audience with a primer on belonging and othering.

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October 28, 2024

Belonging Without Othering: A book talk with john a. powell and Stephen Menendian

On October 28, OBI Director john a. powell and Research Director Stephen Menendian shared the stage with Ashley Gallegos for an enriching, thought-provoking conversation on Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World.

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October 18, 2024

Targeted Universalism: Equity 2.0 approaches to policy and practice

Director john a. powell, keynote speaker, presented on the basics of othering and belonging, targeted universalism, and how institutional medicine is a natural environment to implement targeted universalism.

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June 12, 2024

Videos from the 2024 Othering & Belonging Conference

See our playlist below which includes all our videos from the 2024 Othering & Belonging Conference, which took place April 25-27 in Oakland, CA! To select a video from the playlist click on the button in the top right corner of the video player...

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April 4, 2024

Reimagining Urban Planning for Belonging

Register here Reimagining Urban Planning is a monthly series of public webinars that focuses on the edge of innovation in urban planning and policy. Traditionally Urban Planning has had a long legacy of harming communities of color, developing and...

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June 4, 2024

Video: The World is Not Enough with Bayo Akomolafe and Ashish Kothari

In this June 4 "Edges in the Middle" discussion OBI Global Senior Fellow Bayo Akomolafe engages with author, sociologist, and environmentalist Ashish Kothari to discuss the sociomaterial, political, spiritual, and civilizational events shaping our...

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April 6, 2024

Depolarization Day

On April 6th, the Social Cohesion Lab and the Campus Bridging Projected hosted Depolarization Day. Participants learned more about the principles of bridging , engaged with documentaries that encouraged them to expand their own perspectives, and...

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April 3, 2024

Social Housing in California

Social housing has come to encompass a variety of programs and financing schemes, but all fundamentally move away from a reliance on private, for-profit motives driving housing insecurity. In 2023, California will launch a study of social housing in...

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April 2, 2024

Mass Liberation & Climate Justice Toolkit

The climate crisis and mass incarceration are two crises that have shared roots and affect many of the same communities, yet are often talked about and organized around as separate issues. What connects them? How can we talk about them in ways that resonate and advance solutions to both?

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March 14, 2024

Book Talk: Before Gentrification, with Tanya Golash-Boza

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza's book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap explores how redlining, incarceration, anti-blackness, and gentrification have resulted in DC becoming an extremely unequal city. She presented her book...

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February 22, 2024

Video: Is Democracy White? with Achille Mbembe and Bayo Akomolafe

In this "Edges in the Middle" talk, philosopher and political theorist Achille Mbembe and series host Bayo Akomolafe explore liberal democracy, its limitations, and its possible futures. Transcript Sara Grossman: Welcome everyone. My name is Sara...

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December 7, 2023

Principles for Reframing the National Security Narrative

Our public discourse is seeded with dangerous and counterproductive ideas concerning national security that are so deeply embedded we may often be unaware that we, as story tellers, are invoking or reinforcing them in our own narrations. Thus, over...

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November 29, 2023

Video: Disability & Blackness

One of the hidden aspects of the Black Panther Party in the California Bay Area was its contributions to the nascent disability rights movement in the 1970s. In 1977, the Party famously supported a 26-day occupation of a federal building in San...

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November 16, 2023

Video: Across Lines: Grief. with Bayo Akomolafe, Professor Sa’ed Atshan, and Cecilie Surasky

How do we catch people where they fall? How do we respond to this crisis in a way that doesn’t reinforce its architecture? What kind of politics is being summoned at this time? In this November 16 conversation that was part of our Democracy &...

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November 15, 2023

Video: Climate Displacement and the Right to Stay: Tools and Tactics for Climate Justice

On Nov. 15 OBI's Global Justice team hosted this hour-long livestream to mark the launch of the Climate Displacement and Resilience Database. The team provided background on the database, demonstrated how other researchers and organizations can use...

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December 3, 2024, 7:00 - 9:00pm EST

The Power of Bridging Book Launch

Join us in john powell's hometown of Detroit, Michigan to celebrate the launch of his new book, The Power of Bridging. We will gather on the Wayne State University campus for an evening of celebration and inspiration. Meet john as...

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December 2, 2024

Fear, Grievance, and the Other

The goal of this paper is to provide a primer on key concepts that help us understand the rise, strategies, and tactics of exclusionary, nativist, and populist movements today, and to advance the framework of authoritarian populism as an analytical tool that informs practical efforts to combat these movements, address structural marginality, and advance democracies rooted in belonging.