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SUMMARY:The Identity Trap
DESCRIPTION:In The Identity Trap (Penguin Random House\, 2023)\, Mounk argues that although appreciating the cultural diversity is vital for our democracy\, a new ideology is on the rise: one that puts too much emphasis on group identity\, and in doing so\, deepens polarization and threatens democracy. \nMounk is a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge (BA\, History) and Harvard University (PhD\, Government). He is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University\, where he holds appointments in both the School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute. \nHe is also a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic\, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations\, and a Moynihan Public Fellow at City College of New York. He is the founder of the Substack Persuasion\, host of The Good Fight podcast\, and serves as a publisher (Herausgeber) at Die Zeit.
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SUMMARY:Affective Lockdown: Administrative Chaos and Informal Repairing in the Local Enactment of Immobility in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Yan Long\, University of California-Berkeley \nThis study investigates the installment and management of targeted lockdowns in urban China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Departing from the scholarly focus on either top-down governance mechanisms or the spontaneously rising societal (in)compliance\, it highlights the overlooked daily practices of government workers in soliciting consent and collaboration from residents. Through fifty in-depth interviews with frontline workers in a Southern Chinese city\, this research reveals that targeted lockdowns were not executed orchestrations of high formal state capacity. Instead\, they were fraught with procedural\, material\, and personnel deficiencies and digital breakdowns\, leading to administrative chaos and intensified resident disobedience. this research argue that it was frontline workers’ informal affective labor—interpersonal emotional engagement and communal relationship building—that were repairing social order and holding together the neighborhood governance system on the verge of collapse. These findings provide a granular reevaluation of the enforcement and eventually recession of targeted lockdowns that may continuously shape post-pandemic urban neighborhood governance.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/affective-lockdown-china/
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SUMMARY:The New Central Social Affairs Department of the Chinese Communist Party and its Impact on Social Policy in China
DESCRIPTION:Mark Sidel\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \nWhile social policy and social affairs have long been under Party control in China\, new developments at and after the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October 2022 now promise to further strengthen that control and coordination. In this talk Professor Mark Sidel\, a longtime specialist in civil society and nonprofit issues in China\, will review what we know so far about the formation and developing roles of the Party’s Central Social Affairs Department\, the new Party group tasked with policy formation over a wide range of social policy issues\, and what this development may mean for Party-state policy coordination and boundaries on social policy issues and other possible implications.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/social-affairs-china-communist/
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SUMMARY:Resilience in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Kristen Eichensehr\, University of Virginia \nThis presentation identifies tactics to bolster resilience against digitally enabled threats across three temporal phases: anticipating and preparing for disruptions\, adapting to and withstanding disruptions\, and recovering from disruptions. A resilience agenda is an essential part of protecting national security in a digital age. Digital technologies impact nearly all aspects of everyday life\, from communications and medical care to electricity and government services. Societal reliance on digital tools should be paired with efforts to secure societal resilience. A resilience agenda involves preparing for\, adapting to\, withstanding\, and recovering from disruptions in ways that advance societal interests\, goals\, and values. Emphasizing resilience offers several benefits: 1) It is threat agnostic or at least relatively threat neutral; 2) its inward focus emphasizes actions under the control of a targeted nation\, rather than attempting to change behaviors of external adversaries; and 3) because resilience can address multiple threats simultaneously\, it may be less subject to politicization. A resilience strategy is well-suited to address both disruptions to computer systems—whether from cyberattacks or natural disasters—and disruptions to the information environment from disinformation campaigns that sow discord. A resilience agenda is realistic\, not defeatist\, and fundamentally optimistic in its focus on how society can withstand and move forward from adverse events.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/resilience-in-the-digital-age-2/
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SUMMARY:A Political Theory of Governance of Diversity
DESCRIPTION:Omar Sadr\, University of Pittsburgh\nPosvar 3911 \nThis talk presents a political theory of governance of cultural diversity developed in Sadr’s book\, Negotiating Cultural Diversity. It argues that a pluralistic society should forge a balance between three key elements: individual autonomy\, counter-homogenization measures\, and intercultural dialogue. \nContemporary societies are increasingly facing a tremendous challenge in terms of finding social cohesion. A major challenge comes from disagreement over the issues related to social justice and other fundamental principles and ethical issues that should govern our societies. The challenge compounds when these disagreements intertwine with group and cultural identities such as race\, ethnicity\, religion\, and sexual orientation. This leads to a conflict between individual rights such as freedom of speech\, freedom to practice religion\, or equal opportunity with group or community preferences. A theory of governance of diversity should not only present a solution on how to peacefully accommodate deep differences\, but should also present a way out on how to adjudicate disagreement between universal values and particularistic aspirations.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/a-political-theory-of-governance-of-diversity/
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