Sarah Amsler
Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society
Amsler, Sarah
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Ana C. Dinerstein
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Abstract
© The Author(s) 2016. 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, Amsler’s chapter offers a reading of political hopelessness amongst educators in England through a critical epistemology which discloses it as ‘unfinished’ and potent material within a global politics of possibility. She invokes methods from Bloch’s critical process-philosophy of ‘learning hope’ which allows for three reality-shifting operations: (1) the making of distinctions between what is ʼnot’, ʼnot-yet’ and ʼnothing’ 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.
Citation
Amsler, S. (2016). Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society. In A. C. Dinerstein (Ed.), Social Sciences for an Other Politics: Women Theorizing Without Parachutes (19-32). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_2
Online Publication Date | Dec 16, 2016 |
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Publication Date | Dec 15, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Sep 14, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 19-32 |
Book Title | Social Sciences for an Other Politics: Women Theorizing Without Parachutes |
Chapter Number | 2 |
ISBN | 9783319477756 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_2 |
Keywords | Bloch, Ernst; Critical epistemology; Education, politics of; Hope, learning; Pedagogy, critical; Possibility, politics of; Santos, Boaventura de Sousa |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/833223 |
Publisher URL | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-47776-3_2 |
Related Public URLs | https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319477756 http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319477756 |
Additional Information | This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319477756. |
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