The ‘taken-for-granted’ disappears
A look out of the window or at the screen shows a world where our 'ontological security' is disappearing. Our very fundamental sense of being is being broken. Our sense of continuity of our lives is ruptured. Multiple crisis rock the sense of the self. All of a sudden we are all at the ‘front-lines’ of experiencing the polycrisis.

Ontological security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_security

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A very interesting researcher for understanding many of today's socio-political dynamics is Catarina Kinnvall. It is particularly important to understand the concept of ontological (in)security.

"As individuals feel vulnerable
and experience existential anxiety, it is not uncommon for them to wish to reaffirm a threatened self-identity. Any collective identity that can provide such security is a potential pole of attraction. It is a war of emotions, where world leaders and other paramount figures are seeking to rally people around simple rather than complex causes".

Several articles are available on the website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catarina-Kinnvall

➡️ Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy (2023)
➡️ Populism, Ontological Insecurity and Gendered Nationalism: Masculinity, Climate Denial and Covid-19 (2020)

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