Presentation on Reimagining Extremism: Context, culture, community and country
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This document discusses reimagining extremism by examining it through the lenses of context, culture, community, and country. It explores how political entrepreneurs use disinformation and strategic socio-political investments to normalize deviance and instrumentalize anxiety, division, and doubt. While some effects may appear ephemeral, these actions can entrench extremism and normalize it in the long run by preying on vulnerabilities in families, democracy, and trust in institutions. The document cautions that addressing extremism requires understanding how ecologies of discontent take root and spread symbiotically through fluid dynamics like political "swarms" or "mobs".
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Presentation on Reimagining Extremism: Context, culture, community and country
- 1. reimagining extremism context, culture, community, country sanjana hattotuwa
- 2. global south as petri dish exceptionalism is/as a weakness
- 3. Political entrepreneurs & disinfo innovation Episodic moments Short-term Long-term Entrenchment & normalisation Instrumentalising anxiety, doubt, division Ephemeral & stochastic persuasion Strategic socio-political investments Sea Waves Land Shore
- 4. “normalisation of deviance”, diane vaughan family, children, friends, elections, democracy, institutions, media, trust, scepticism
- 5. ecologies of (dis)content roots, pollination, spread, symbiosis
- 6. swarms (or mobs) fluid dynamics
- 8. ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? robert browning
- 9. thank you