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The Impossibility of Hope The Impossibility of Hope
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Hope, Optimism, Pessimism? Hope, Optimism, Pessimism?
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Grounding Agency: Locating Hope Grounding Agency: Locating Hope
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Unfolding Temporalities: The Time of and for Hope Unfolding Temporalities: The Time of and for Hope
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Dark Hope on the Ground Dark Hope on the Ground
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The Possibility of Dark Hope The Possibility of Dark Hope
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3 Sprouting: Dark Hope in Undecidable Times
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Published:December 2023
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Abstract
Chapter 3 proposes the notion of “dark hope”—informed by the dark richness of soil science, the critical theorizations of Black feminist futurities, and the mysteries of apophatic poiesis—that is not salvation-seeking so much as way-making, granting attention to the contextuality of agency. The third chapter links the wisdom of apophatic thinking with the teachings of critical negativist theories. Given that many present forms of political engagement legitimize the systems that reproduce the very injustices activists seek to abolish, the hope proposed here aims to catalyze collectives not in pursuits of “Progress” so much as precarious modes of habitation grounded in resistant rejection of unjust systems and structures. Chapter 3 intends to offer a terrestrially-attuned iteration of hope that can catalyze multiracial, pluralistic collectives seeking environmental justice in the midst of anthropogenic climate change.
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