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Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect (2006)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2006). Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 24(5), 733-752. https://doi.org/10.1068/d393t

In this paper I describe how hope takes place, in order to outline an explicit theory of the more-than-rational or less-than rational in the context of the recent attunement to issues of the affectual and emotional in social and cultural geography. I... Read More about Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect.

'Transcending Without Transcendence': Utopianism and an Ethos of Hope (2006)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2006). 'Transcending Without Transcendence': Utopianism and an Ethos of Hope. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 38(4), 691-710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00472.x

Human geography has recently witnessed an emergent interest in the intertwined problematics of how to be utopian and how to remain hopeful or optimistic. This paper aims to introduce a type of immanent utopianism that follows from a dynamic, open, co... Read More about 'Transcending Without Transcendence': Utopianism and an Ethos of Hope.