Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society
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 di...
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| description | 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 ‘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. |
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| spelling | nottingham-461242020-05-04T18:25:42Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46124/ Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society Amsler, Sarah 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 ‘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. Palgrave Macmillan Dinerstein, Ana C. 2016-12-15 Book Section PeerReviewed Amsler, Sarah (2016) Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society. In: Social sciences for an other politics: women theorizing without parachutes. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-47775-6 Bloch Ernst; Critical epistemology; Education politics of; Hope learning; Pedagogy critical; Possibility politics of; Santos Boaventura de Sousa https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-47776-3_2 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_2 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_2 |
| spellingShingle | Bloch Ernst; Critical epistemology; Education politics of; Hope learning; Pedagogy critical; Possibility politics of; Santos Boaventura de Sousa Amsler, Sarah Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society |
| title | Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society |
| title_full | Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society |
| title_fullStr | Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society |
| title_short | Learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society |
| title_sort | learning hope: an epistemology of possibility for advanced capitalist society |
| topic | Bloch Ernst; Critical epistemology; Education politics of; Hope learning; Pedagogy critical; Possibility politics of; Santos Boaventura de Sousa |
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