The Importance of Belonging

When we think about belonging, we often think about it in terms of an exclusive membership – something that is defined according to what other people don't have. I'm thinking particularly because there's always this shadow of a very kind of far right imaginary of the rolling green passes of England. And therefore we should keep immigrants out and do all kinds of horrible violence to it. So how do we move past those frameworks? Sure, yeah, I mean, the left has been, I guess, uncomfortable about talking about things like belonging for a long time,. But I think it's absolutely essential to talk about it and define it not in kind of terms of exclusivity or terms of birthright or terms