Hope

Shortcuts to a Big Idea

AvDavid Chandler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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David Chandler’s Hope offers a compelling exploration of the politics of hope against the backdrop of a broken world grappling with global crises, from political disillusionment to catastrophic climate change, where alternative futures seem difficult to imagine in positive terms.Examining hope as an ethicopolitical praxis, Chandler offers a highly readable analysis of how hope can sustain alternative futures amidst widespread uncertainty and disillusionment, critically engaging with hope’s transformative potential, and challenging conventional political approaches and envisioning new ways of thinking about trust, care and relational politics. It traces the concept of hope through diverse critical traditions, including the Frankfurt School, Black Radical Tradition, Queer Utopianism, Critical Indigenous Studies and contemporary Critical Black Studies, and delves into the social and historical contexts of hope, analysing its role in communities of survivance, struggle and experimentation. Crucially, and uniquely, the author emphasises the human subject’s centrality to hope, exploring how unconscious desires and liberated imaginations can foster new political imaginaries and connecting theoretical insights with practical applications for navigating today’s critical challenges.A thought-provoking examination of how struggles to keep futural possibilities alive in the present strive to move beyond a politics that can only reproduce more of the same, Hope is essential reading for students and scholars of environmental humanities, politics and the social sciences.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-31
Mått:129 x 198 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Shortcuts
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041058687

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David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster, London, UK. He edits the journal Anthropocenes - Human, Inhuman, Posthuman and writes widely on the subjects of critical theory, the contemporary crisis of governance and race in the Anthropocene.

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'Chandler’s Hope is a tour de force in its mapping of contemporary political and social theory. It is an important provocation that carves out lines of hope beyond the world as it exists. Without these, there can only be the violent solace of hope as a feeling, rather than hope as a strategy. This book is essential reading for anyone working in theory today.'Claire Colebrook, Professor of English Literature, Monash University'This concise book offers a much-needed, critical intervention into the ways a whole range of political, community and scholarly projects ‘utilis[e] hope as a remaining resource in the wake of broken worlds’. Chandler brings our attention to under-examined critical ‘engagements with hope’, including those emerging from continental philosophical traditions, black studies, and decolonial approaches, which strive ‘to hold open the future’ and imagine worlds otherwise.'Louiza Odysseos, Professor Emeritus in International Relations in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex'David Chandler carefully examines the ontologies and meanings of hope. He analyses how hope today has been instrumentalised, often limiting rather than enabling the emergence of alternative futures. Kant’s question, “What may I hope for?” still remains a crucial concern, especially when thinking beyond survivance.'Elena Korosteleva, Professor of Politics and Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick'This book offers a timely reconsideration of hope, at a time when it seems both more necessary and more difficult than ever. Much more than hoping for rosy futures, the challenging ideas woven through this book are meant to disrupt modernist and normative notions of hope, and bring the discussion about hope to the core problem of its ambiguous ontology.'Noga Glucksam, author of Rewilding Peace, Department of Political Science, University College London