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?
Documents struggles waged by ordinary citizens against creeping authoritarianism, propounding actions of resistance that keep democracy alive.
Projects for this cluster will appear here once tagged with "Audacious Hope".
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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A set of conversations across disciplines examining the ways in which hope and action spur each other.
Projects for this cluster will appear here once tagged with "Horizons of Hope".
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.
Health and hope brings together practitioners, academics and policy consultants to explore the role of religion in provisioning healthcare and overcoming hopelessness.
Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline