Social and Political Dimensions of Hope

Stockdale, Katie

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“…Moreover, it seems to require some conceptualization of its object. We see this focus on the object of hope quite explicitly in Luc Boven’s (1999) claim that hope requires a “mental image” of the thing hoped for (see also Martin 2014, 18; Stockdale 2019, 205). Yet this appeal to a “mental image” is too strong.…”

Section: Hope Generallymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Some form of hope, I will presume for the sake of this paper, is helpful for the development of motivation, an outlet for action and an alternative to despair. Of course the practical psychological challenge of generating motivation in the face of likely despair will not be resolved by an account of radical hope (See McGeer 2004; Calhoun 2018; Stockdale 2019). However, the practical significance of hope as a source of motivation and encouragement points to a key role for radical hope.…”

Section: The Need For Hopementioning

confidence: 99%

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Living well wherever you are: Radical hope and the good life in the Anthropocene

Shockley

2020

Journal of Social Philosophy

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Section: Hope Generallymentioning

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Section: The Need For Hopementioning

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Living well wherever you are: Radical hope and the good life in the Anthropocene

Shockley

2020

Journal of Social Philosophy

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“…Despite its potential benefits for the disadvantaged, hope for social change may be harder to generate or sustain when one’s group suffers ongoing injustice. Oppression structures the lives of disadvantaged individuals, exerts pressure on them, constrains freedoms and capabilities, and, accordingly, affects capacities for hope (Stockdale, 2019). For example, previous research has shown that the Israeli occupation shapes the lives of Palestinians who report high levels of distress, worry, fears about their future, helplessness, and hopelessness (Dabbagh, 2004; Giacaman et al, 2011; Hammack, 2003; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2003).…”

Section: Do Disadvantaged Group Members Want To Feel Hope In the Face Of Setbacks?mentioning

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The Quest for Hope: Disadvantaged Group Members Can Fulfill Their Desire to Feel Hope, but Only When They Believe in Their Power

Hasan-Aslih

Shuman

Goldenberg

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Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Within contexts of oppression and struggle for social change, in which hope is constantly challenged, do disadvantaged group members still want to feel hope? If so, does this desire translate into actual hope? And does motivation for hope relate to disadvantaged individuals’ collective action tendencies? We suggest that, especially when faced with setbacks in the struggle for social change, disadvantaged group members want to feel hope, but actualizing this motivation depends on their group efficacy beliefs. We address these questions in a two-wave sample of 429 Palestinians living under militarized occupation in the West Bank. Our results indicate that when faced with setbacks, Palestinians want to feel hope for social change, but only those who perceive high group efficacy are able to fulfill their desire. We discuss these findings’ implications for understanding motivated emotional processes and hope in contexts of oppression.

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“…Furthermore, hope cannot be understood as a personal attitude or an individual virtue alone (see Stockdale, 2019); rather, it is always a socially and politically mediated practice. It can thus be improved every time it serves as a prompt to act, to free people from oppression, and to make institutions mindful of the right to hope for a different future.…”

Section: Radical Hope Renewed Micrologymentioning

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Progress, emancipation, hope: Rethinking critical theory through memories as counternarratives

Pierosara

2020

Constellations

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Taking a cue from recent works concerning progress and emancipation within Critical Theory (Allen, 2016, Verovšek, 2019, this contribution 1 aims to articulate a critique of the notion of progress to rehabilitate the notion of emancipation. To achieve this objective, the argument is developed in four steps to widen the discussion to include themes of hope, counter-memories, and counternarratives as paths toward emancipation.First, I illustrate the main meanings of progress and its ethical implications as they emerge in some of Honneth's writings. Then, I try to highlight some problems with the category of progress when applied to Critical Theory. I also take a cue from both some recent works on this topic (Allen, 2016) and postcolonial studies (Chakrabarty, 2000).Second, I clarify the notion of emancipation and compare it with the concept of progress. I point out that emancipation can work better than progress within the domain of Critical Theory since it leaves room for contingency both in a negative and a positive sense. I show that emancipation is fit for the purpose of rethinking the right to live a good life, which is only possible within a fair social context.Next, I focus on a kind of proximity among emancipation, hope, and micrology, based on their negative and disruptive imports. On the one hand, emancipation shares with hope the fact that they are both counterfactual and essential for the investigation of reality. On the other hand, micrology, which is attentive to detail, can be useful in deconstructing the triumphalist narration of history and let other accounts emerge. In the last section, assuming that the modes of writing history can be understood as dispositifs of power, I point out that a renewed micrology implies a radical mode of conceiving history as a constant dialogue with forgotten memories and unheard voices, maintaining that the marginalized and the unheard can work as an immanent, though in some ways transcendent, force that is able to transform neglected and marginalized reality (Hartman, 2019). Such a conception of history underpins a new and radical way of interpreting narrative coherence and the act of narrating (Bhabha, 1990, Butler, 2004. RECONSTRUCTING THE MEANING AND THE MAIN CRITIQUES OF THE NOTION OF PROGRESSWithin the tradition of conceptual history (Koselleck, 1975), progress is sketched as a belief in a positive and unavoidable trend in history. From the eighteenth century onward, progress has been considered to be the same as history,

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Social and Political Dimensions of Hope

Cited by 24 publications

References 20 publications

Living well wherever you are: Radical hope and the good life in the Anthropocene

Living well wherever you are: Radical hope and the good life in the Anthropocene

The Quest for Hope: Disadvantaged Group Members Can Fulfill Their Desire to Feel Hope, but Only When They Believe in Their Power

Progress, emancipation, hope: Rethinking critical theory through memories as counternarratives

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