[csaa-forum] Spaces of Hope - Special Issue Call For Contributors

[Ben Anderson]

Dear all, 

 

Please forward to anyone who might be interested in the following call
for contributors to a special issue of Space and Culture on hope and
hopefulness. If people are interested but require more information
please feel free to email me.  

best wishes, 

 

Ben Anderson

 

Spaces of Hope

 

Special Issue of "Space and Culture"

Edited by Dr Ben Anderson and Dr Jill Fenton

 

This special issue of Space and Culture aims to draw into conversation a
set of trajectories that have made hope into a central topic in the
social sciences and humanities. In the context of a broader interest in
affect/emotion in social and cultural theory, and resonating with
in-depth attention to the rhythms and routines of everyday life, there
has been an emerging research focus on hope in a range of contexts. From
alternative political imaginations, through to spaces of ill health or
flows of transnational migration, hope is an integral but
taken-for-granted part of life that is folded into distinctive
temporalities and spatialities. In this issue we therefore aim to draw
together research on multiple spaces of hope. In the context of recent
efforts to reclaim hope for a progressive politics we also want to
discuss how hope can be enacted in relation to political and ethical
practices - how thinking and acting with hope could fold into a
distinctive ethos of engagement with the world. Questions that the issue
may address therefore include: 

 

First, how does hope differ and defer from other interconnected affects
and emotions (e.g. fear, anxiety or optimism)? How does hope vary as it
is entangled in different contexts i.e. how does hope take-place in and
through embodiment and how do defined objects of hope emerge and change?


 

Second, how are hopes enacted, expressed and circulated in specific
contexts (through particular practices, images, objects etc)? How is
hope thereafter distributed, or patterned, in relation to the
differences that make up the social (of class, race, etc)? 

 

Third, how does hope function as a distinctive type of relation with the
world in contrast with ressentiment or enchantment? What promises are
enacted by thinking, and acting, hopefully in social and cultural
theory?  What kind of political or ethical techniques may embody and/or
enact hope and hopefulness i.e. critique, utopianism? 

 

 

We welcome papers from any discipline that address these and any other
relevant questions and problems in relation to hope. Please send 150-200
word abstracts for consideration by 1st March 2006 to BOTH Ben Anderson
(ben.anderson at durham.ac.uk) and Jill Fenton (jill_m.fenton at which.net).
Please note the issue will be fully refereed and depending on
contributors is likely to be published in early 2007 - full papers will
be submitted in June 2006.

 

 

Dr Ben Anderson

Lecturer in Human Geography

Department of Geography

University of Durham

Science Site, South Road

Durham, DH1 3LE

0191 3341897

http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?mode=staff&id=985

 

Email: ben.anderson at durham.ac.uk

 

 

 

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