I’ve kept reading and thinking about hope, but I wasn’t able to be very articulate about it, when speaking with others, these last few years. Since then, it’s been a big 3 years at our house – getting caught up in devastating bushfires at Mallacoota, and the covid pandemic times, which left no-one untouched or unchanged.
I started writing about radical hope a few years ago, after re-reading Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark – Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, and Jonathon Lear’s Radical Hope – Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. It was so good, and touched on so many things that I’ve been thinking about, and longing for, and looking for, these last few years. It is a process we can apply in any situation.” ~ Joanna Macy, from her book Active Hope.Īt the recent Australian Permaculture Convergence, on Paramangk country near Tartanya / Adelaide, I had the honor of co-hosting an amazing conversation on Articulating and Activating Hope with some very excellent humans. The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.“Active Hope is about being active participants in bringing about what we hoped for. She insists that radicals and revolutionaries must hold onto hope in order to create a world more like the one they want to live in, even in the face of enormous obstacles, and especially in the face of uncertainty. Solnit uses this history of protesters, writers, and workers to argue that hope is the necessary catalyst for action. Hope in the Dark is a long essay that serves as a primer on social and environmental activism and uprisings from the mid-to-late 20th century to the present. Written in response to the 2004 US presidential election, and updated during the 2016 race, Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark is a call to action for people who find themselves despairing about the political climate of the world today.
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