Middle Hope
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2406301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joe Gerlach (0000-0003-4763-816X, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 333-339 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-4740 • E-ISSN: 1477-0881 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474474016680105 |
| OpenAlex | W4242046319 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
How does one hope? In this short essay, I narrate moments from time spent at Middle Hope, a small coastal inlet of the Severn Estuary, England. These moments aim to offer, hesitantly, brief respite from certain liberal narratives that rely upon the promulgation of 'hope' as a reasonable societal disposition with which to face planetary transformation. I suggest, instead, a turn to ambivalence and melancholy
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Promulgation · Psychoanalysis · Respite care · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |