Hope in the Anthropocene: Agency, Governance and Negation

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New modes of Hope have emerged in the Anthropocene, increasingly grounded in an ethics of attentiveness and responsibility. Through incorporating contemporary approaches to both theory and policy practice, including critical, feminist, black and indigenous perspectives, this book analyses how Hope works with the uncertainties and interdependencies of human agency and interaction. It draws out the problems of integrating Hope into governance and policy management, and engages with Hope as a potentially negating force, in a world which can be seen as one of unending catastrophe.

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Valerie Waldow is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. Her research interests include international political theory, rationalities of international interventions and governance, Anthropocene discourses, and prospects for hope and critique in IR.