Please join us for an evening to celebrate the launch of
Don't Talk About Politics
by Sarah Stein Lubrano.
Sarah’s collaborator and friend Max Haiven, co-founder of Sense and Solidarity, will chair and ask the important questions, like “should we form cults instead?” and “does Musk deserve the guillotine?”
Then there will be a Q and A, book signing and longer chats.
About Don't Talk About Politics
This provocative debut from a bold new voice combines a fascinating range of research to show us the psychological and sociological factors that really shape our politics.
Drawing from ancient philosophy to modern neuroscience and social science, Dr Sarah Stein Lubrano reveals the surprising truth about how people think and behave politically. From friendship to community organizing and social infrastructure, she explores the actions that actually do change minds.
In a world where politics keeps getting more irrational, dishonest, violent and chaotic, it's getting much harder to reach people with words alone. So people who really care about democracy must ask: how can we stop arguing and do the deep work to build stronger foundations for political life, and a better world for us all?
Sarah Stein Lubrano
Sarah has been organizing since she was 18, when her college feminist group ran Female Orgasm Day.
During the pandemic, she coordinated mutual aid for her ward in London. She is also the Strategy Lead at the Future Narratives Lab, where she strategises about how to talk about social problems.
She just finished a PhD at Oxford in Political Theory and her research focuses on cognitive dissonance and how it can help explain the gaps in people’s political consciousness.
In addition to podcasting with Max (check out the series What Do We Want?, a podcast about the weird, wild and wonderful things that brings social movements together and tear them apart) she’s been on a lot of other people’s podcasts, including Derren Brown’s audible series, The BBC’s Moral Maze, and Women’s Hour. She frequently speaks to the public.
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Max Haiven
Max has been organizing grassroots movements since he was 12 in anti-capitalist and anti-colonial initiatives.
Today works as the Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University and directs RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, a platform to bring together social movements and radical ideas.
He is the author or editor of 9 books which all focus on the relationship between capitalism and the imagination. Along with Alex Khasnabish, he is the author of The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (2014) and is currently working on a book titled The Player and the Played: How Financialization Fosters Fascism.