Hope's Work

Back, Les. 2021. Hope's Work. Antipode, 53(1), pp. 3-20. ISSN 0066-4812 [Article]

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This article, given as the Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture on 28 August 2019, argues that hope can be found through training an attentiveness to the social world in troubled times. Hope then is an empirical question and a matter of documenting hopeful possibilities that often otherwise remain unremarked upon. In this sense “worldly hope” draws possibilities that are manifested in the social world and stands in contrast to cruel forms of optimism or an unrealistic faith in future progress. An argument for such an approach to hope and trouble is developed through two examples drawn from contemporary London life, namely, the silent walks at Grenfell Tower in West London and a community arts project in Bellingham, South East London.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12644

Keywords:

hopeful geography, metropolitan paradoxes, everyday life, urban inequalities, gentrification, city life

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
25 February 2020Accepted
9 July 2020Published Online
January 2021Published

Item ID:

29032

Date Deposited:

14 Jul 2020 08:55

Last Modified:

26 Mar 2021 10:42

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29032

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