Amsler, Sarah (2017) Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society. In: Social sciences for an other politics: women theorizing without parachutes. Palgrave. ISBN 9783319477756
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Abstract
Drawing on the critical theories of Ernst Bloch and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, as well as on the knowledge and learning practices of counter-capitalist social movements, this chapter offers a reading of political hopelessness among educators in England through a critical epistemology which discloses it as ‘unfinished’ and potent material within a global politics of possibility. It invokes methods from Bloch’s critical process-philosophy of ‘learning hope’ which allow for three reality-shifting operations: (1) the making of distinctions between what is ‘not’, ‘not-yet’ and ‘nothing’ in experience and historical process; (2) identifying and creating ‘fronts’ of possibility for mediating reality in concretely utopian ways; and (3) the recognition of a multiplicity of anti-hegemonic scales and modes of transformation, and explains why these matter in movements not just for social change but for the immanent creation of an other reality.
Keywords: | Ernst Bloch, prefigurative politics, utopia, education, England, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, counter-capitalism, hope, critical epistemology |
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Subjects: | L Social studies > L370 Social Theory X Education > X990 Education not elsewhere classified L Social studies > L150 Political Economics |
Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Education |
ID Code: | 24057 |
Deposited On: | 11 Sep 2016 20:02 |
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