Hope in a time of catastrophe? Resilience and the future<i>in</i>bare life

Wrangel, Claes Tängh

doi:10.1080/21693293.2014.948326

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“…Bloch (1986,56) calls it "concretely genuine hope" which arises from "informed discontent" with the present. It brings the future into the present and enables a break with it (Wrangel, 2014). This kind of hope is harder to find, because it is the hidden and invisible drive behind socio-political calls for change, but it exists in the myriad of praxis-oriented activities in everyday life, in the streets, in the neighbourhoods, in the cities, and in the commons, when various forms of collective actions both challenge the normalisation of the present reality and engage with the reality of what Bloch (1986, 56) calls the 'Not-Yet'.…”

Section: The Best Of Times?mentioning

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Hope and despair at the time of pandemic

Davoudi

Ormerod

2021

Town Planning Review

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At the time when lives and livelihoods are lost, streets are eerily empty, shops are shuttered, schools are closed, cities are locked down, people are isolated from their loved ones, and the spread of Coronavirus is spiralling the world into multiple inter-connected crises, many people are searching for hope in the midst of despair. What is hope, where can we find it, and is hope a social force for change? In this Viewpoint we aim to address these questions and present an account of despair whose roots, we argue, go deeper than the current pandemic and its tragic consequences.

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Section: The Best Of Times?mentioning

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Hope and despair at the time of pandemic

Davoudi

Ormerod

2021

Town Planning Review

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“…This has opened the door to applications of trauma psychologies (Woodbury, ) and existentialist psychologies (Langford, ; Wolfe & Tubi, ). Meanwhile, the scientific and philosophical literature on hope is witnessing a revival, in no small part because of the dire prospects that climate change puts before us (Foster, ; Myers, Nisbet, Maibach, & Leiserowitz, ; Ojala, ; Pihkala, ; Wrangel, )…”

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The work after “It's too late” (to prevent dangerous climate change)

Moser

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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The fact that the question “Is it too late (to prevent dangerous climate change”)? is being debated in serious science circles constitutes a culturally significant moment. This article does not offer a simplistic answer to “is it too late – or not?”, but explores the uncomfortable space of denying neither endings nor possibilities. In so doing, it asks readers to witness and engage with what appears to be a serious psychological and cultural struggle within ourselves, now publicly visible, over what and how to confront endings, what kind of hope to sustain, and how to be and act in the face of these accumulating apocalyptic (i.e., revelatory) facts. The article sketches the variety of endings being faced at this time and the psychological responses to them. It then outlines the political, policy, and practical work, as well as the deeper, underlying socio‐cultural and psychological work, that the paradoxical tension between endings and possibilities demands. This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Communication

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“…Those tasked to implement hope during the Obama period are several agencies working on different aspects of use including both the US military (Wrangel, 2014) and the full range of the US development industry (Tängh Wrangel, 2017). The means employed by these different agencies varies greatly, from material development programmes such as Feed the Future to the 2010 military surge in Afghanistan, described by Obama as delivering a 'promise of a better future' to the Afghan population (2009c).…”

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Biopolitics of hope and security: governing the future through US counterterrorism communications

Wrangel

2019

Globalizations

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This article probes the relationship between hope and security, looking at how hope is appropriated and used by the US security apparatus under President Obama to preempt radicalisation. It looks specifically at strategic narratives designed to infuse hope within the global Muslim populationidentified in US security discourse as being particularly vulnerable to terrorist recruitment. While critical studies of security often articulate hope and security to be diametrically opposed concepts, this article shows that hope not only is an active and important part of contemporary technologies and logics of security, but also that hope can be productive of the insecurities, fear and exclusions that such politics often is assumed to entail. The use of hope within US counterterrorism communications further indicates that, rather than a subversive force, hope has come to legitimise some of the key facets of post 9/11 politics of security, namely the identification of human nature as a site of potential danger, the invocation of permanent intervention, the radical exclusion of the global Muslim population from political rights, and, not the least, the effective denial of our capacity to imagine another world, free from the insecurities of our political present.

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Hope in a time of catastrophe? Resilience and the futureinbare life

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Hope and despair at the time of pandemic

Hope and despair at the time of pandemic

The work after “It's too late” (to prevent dangerous climate change)

Biopolitics of hope and security: governing the future through US counterterrorism communications

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