In a world beset with multiple and overlapping crises, it is easy to lose hope. And yet, hope remains stubbornly persistent, against all odds, intimating a basic trust in life. What does it mean to renew hope during times of crisis?
As the pillars of democracy crumble across the globe, big and small actions of resistance prop up hope and keep alive a way to rebuild. Nowhere is such hope more evident than India, long celebrated as the world’s largest democracy, where the institutions, values and practices of democracy have come under assault for over a decade. Audacious hope documents the struggles waged by ordinary Indians against the creeping authoritarianism of their polity.
University of York
Scroll.in
The Wire
Indian Express
Deccan Herald
Phenomena World
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
Taylor & Francis
MetroPolitics
Antipode Online
A set of conversations across disciplines and sectors that examine the ways in which hope and action, whether individual or collective, spur each other. These conversations were supported by the University of York.
Art in activism focused on the political hope in India during the pandemic.
Hope and the human experience collectively reflects on the ways in which hope endures despite the personal and social difficulties that people face.
Hope in uncertain times collaboratively explores the ways in which marginalised people across the world navigate and negotiate precarity, urging us all to think about the ways in which hope and action spur each other.
Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline
York Ideas
The conversations in the consortium are organised along three interrelated themes: (i) Health and hope; (ii) Writing hope; and (iii) Hope and social change. Each of these themes challenges and enriches our understandings of hope. The consortium was supported by the University of York and implemented three projects that neatly mapped onto its thematic purposes.
Hope and social change investigates the possibilities of hope in fomenting social change by drawing on perspectives of academics, activists and lawyers.
Writing hope stages conversations between academics, authors and artistes to challenge commonplace understandings of our world and how to make it a better place.
Health and hope brings together practitioners, academics and policy consultants to explore the role of religion in provisioning healthcare and overcoming hopelessness.
University of York
Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline
Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline
Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline
Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline
Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline