The Infrastructure of Belonging

About The Infrastructure of Belonging

Our world is lonelier and more polarised than it has ever been. Social media’s impacts are so toxic that governments are imposing bans for young people. Our lives have shrunk to the size of our screens. And there’s a pervasive sense of isolation and inertia.  

In this incisive book, journalist and strategist Masuma Ahuja finds that our infrastructure for connection, community and belonging is broken. We live in a world built for teams, but we’ve all been playing as individuals and we’re wondering why we’re burned out, lonely and feeling a sense of impossible scarcity. This isn’t just expensive for us as individuals, it’s ineffective for the global economy. 

The Infrastructure of Belonging traces how we got here and what to do about it. It explores the promising models that exist for changing what comes next. And it offers a vision for how societies can rebuild the infrastructure of connection and possibility to create a healthier, happier and enriched future.

About the author

Masuma Ahuja is a journalist, author and strategist who has spent her career exploring how we build belonging and what becomes possible when we do. Ahuja shares in a Pulitzer Prize, a Murrow Award, and a Webby for her work as a journalist. Her first book, Girlhood, published by Algonquin, featured the stories of 30 young women from around the globe. She has a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford and her perspective has been shaped by calling five different countries home.