Whither Hope? A Bibliography

I have been teaching and researching about the various types of emotions in the category of "hope"--from "hokey hope" to "critical hope"-- and put together a small list of readings I love.  Please send me your favorite readings, films, podcasts!

Not listed here are readings that argue for the value of "ugly feelings" like despair. In my teaching and research, I want to think a lot more about the value of feelings that most Americans avoid in favor of our ostensible birthright emotion-- "happiness." Books like Ngai's Ugly Feelings and Ahmed's The Promise of Happiness would be on that list, so if you have other good ones, let me know too.

And, for how students respond to these readings, check out my environmental studies senior capstone blog, "Critical Hope."

Bibliography

Andrade-Duncan, Jeff.  “Growing Roses in Concrete.” (video here, article here).

Boggs, Grace Lee, with Scott Kurashige. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Bristow, Tom, Thom van Dooren, Cameron Muir. “Hope in a Time of Crisis: Environmental Humanities and Histories of Emotions.” Histories of Emotions: From Medieval Europe to Contemporary Australia.  Blog post (November 6, 2015). Accessed 9 January 2017. https://historiesofemotion.com/2015/11/06/hope-in-a-time-of-crisis-environmental-humanities-and-histories-of-emotions/

Brown, Adrienne Maree. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico: AK Press, 2017.

Freire, Paulo. “Opening Words.” Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Gore, Al. “The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate.” Rolling Stone Magazine. Online June 18, 2014.  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618

---. “The Case for Optimism on Climate Change.” TED.com. Accessed May 10, 2016.

Hawken, Paul. The Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming. New York: Viking, 2007.

Houser, Heather. “How Does it Feel?” Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Jensen, Derrick. “Beyond Hope.”  Orion Magazine Online.  https://orionmagazine.org/article/beyond-hope/

Kirksey, Eben. Emergent Ecologies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.

Loeb, Paul Rogat. ed. The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times. New York: Basic Books, 2014.

Macy, Joanna and Chris Johnstone. Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy. Novato: New World Library, 2012.  

Roberts, David. “Is There Hope on Climate Change?”  The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times. Edited by Paul Rogat Loeb. New York: Basic Books, 2014.

Solnit, Rebecca. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. New York: Viking, 2009.  

--- “Acts of Hope: Challenging Empire on the World Stage.” TomDispatch.com. Website. Accessed June 11, 2016.

Walker, Alice. “Only Justice Can Stop a Curse.” The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times. Edited by Paul Rogat Loeb. New York: Basic Books, 2014.

Weston, Anthony.  Mobilizing the Green Imagination: An Exuberant Manifesto. New Society Publishers, 2012.