The Audacity of Hospitality
2008; University of Pittsburgh Press; Volume: 28; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0731-6755
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
Resumospeech entitled The Audacity of Hope.1 In that speech Obama asked, we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of ... I'm not talking about blind optimism here?the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about something more substantial. As I sit in my office in the summer of 2008,1 am reminded of the central place of hope in Obama's candidacy by the bumper sticker tacked to my bulletin board that simply reads got hope? It's a bumper sticker that was given to me because of the work I have done on the concept of hope, especially in What's Hope Got to Do with It?: Towards a Theory of Hope and Pedagogy. In that essay, I attempted to answer the following questions: What exactly do we mean when we talk about hope and why is it imperative that we think about it? How can we unpack hope in critical and reflective ways (especially in relation to pedagogy)? In other words, if
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