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- ISBN 9781041058656
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 analyis 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, analyzing its role in communities of survivance, struggle, and experimentation. Crucially, and uniquely, the author emphasizes 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.
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.
