IMAGINING

Political Futures

Bringing together the best minds to collectively reimagine our political future.

Core Research Themes

Renewing Hope → Reinventing Citizenship → Redefining Development → Rethinking Global Order → Revisiting Methodologies →

Collaborative Initiatives

Key Research Projects

Multinational ethnographic investigations, consortiums, and comparative politics inquiries across Europe, South Asia, and the Global South.

Renewing Hope

Health and Hope

Health and hope brings together practitioners, academics and policy consultants to explore the role of religion in provisioning healthcare and overcoming hopelessness.

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Global Politics of Hope

Hope-making During The Pandemic In São Paulo

Hope-making during the pandemic in São Paulo collaboratively examines the ways in which socially excluded people in the city’s Sapopemba neighbourhood made claims on the state and on each other when confronted with the COVID19 crisis.

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Global Politics of Hope

Hope Amidst Social Exclusion In Three Global Cities

Hope amidst social exclusion in three global cities is a collaborative project focusing on hopes harboured by socially excluded people in London, Mumbai and Paris. It documents the ways in which socially excluded people express their hopes for a better future despite confronting multiple crises, including a global pandemic which coincided with, and hindered, fieldwork […]

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Featured Publication

Audacious Hope: A Chronicle of How Democracy Is Being Saved

As the pillars of democracy crumble across the globe, big and small actions of resistance prop up hope. Audacious Hope documents the struggles waged by ordinary citizens against creeping authoritarianism.

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