Hopes for the future remain central to the political imaginations of socially excluded people. Key to the construction of collective hope is their ability to both navigate the risks posed by social exclusion as well as patiently endeavour for change. Hope is not an individual property. Rather, hope-making is enmeshed in broader social, cultural and economic processes.
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.
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 […]
Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline
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