Swetlana Fork
How environmental activists negotiate a sense of hope in the face of global threats
Contact at: swetlana.fork@uni-bayreuth.de
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By definition, the inherently future-oriented concept of hope does neither depend on rational argumentation nor on concrete visions. Rather, it oftentimes manifests as a feeling accompanied by a more or less vague belief in fortunate future outcomes. In my presentation, I shed light on two deeply interlaced questions concerning the dimension of the deliberate vs. non-deliberate nature of hope: How and under which conditions is a sense of hope described to emerge in discussions and interviews on imagined collective futures (1.)? And by which means and to which extent may it be 鈥減roduced鈥� intentionally (2.)? Related to these aspects, I will discuss its psychosocial functions.
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