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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear all, </span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please forward to anyone
who might be interested in the following call for contributors to a special
issue of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Space and Culture</span></i> on hope
and hopefulness. If people are interested but require more information please feel
free to email me. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>best wishes, </span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ben Anderson</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Spaces
of Hope</span></font></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Special
Issue of “Space and Culture”</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Edited by Dr </span></font>Ben
Anderson and Dr Jill Fenton</p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This special issue of
Space and Culture aims to draw into conversation a set of trajectories that
have made hope into a central topic in the social sciences and humanities. In
the context of a broader interest in affect/emotion in social and cultural
theory, and resonating with in-depth attention to the rhythms and routines of
everyday life, there has been an emerging research focus on hope in a range of
contexts. From alternative political imaginations, through to spaces of ill
health or flows of transnational migration, hope is an integral but
taken-for-granted part of life that is folded into distinctive temporalities
and spatialities. In this issue we therefore aim to draw together research on
multiple spaces of hope. In the context of recent efforts to reclaim hope for a
progressive politics we also want to discuss how hope can be enacted in
relation to political and ethical practices – how thinking and acting
with hope could fold into a distinctive ethos of engagement with the world.
Questions that the issue may address therefore include: </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>First,</span></font></b>
how does hope differ and defer from other interconnected affects and emotions
(e.g. fear, anxiety or optimism)? How does hope vary as it is entangled in
different contexts i.e. how does hope take-place in and through embodiment and
how do defined objects of hope emerge and change? </p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Second,</span></font></b>
how are hopes enacted, expressed and circulated in specific contexts (through
particular practices, images, objects etc)? How is hope thereafter distributed,
or patterned, in relation to the differences that make up the social (of class,
race, etc)? </p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Third,</span></font></b>
how does hope function as a distinctive type of relation with the world in
contrast with ressentiment or enchantment? What promises are enacted by
thinking, and acting, hopefully in social and cultural theory? What kind
of political or ethical techniques may embody and/or enact hope and hopefulness
i.e. critique, utopianism? </p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>We welcome papers from
any discipline that address these and any other relevant questions and problems
in relation to hope. Please send 150-200 word abstracts for consideration by </span></font>1<sup>st</sup> March 2006 to BOTH Ben Anderson (<a href="mailto:ben.anderson@durham.ac.uk">ben.anderson@durham.ac.uk</a>)
and Jill Fenton (jill_m.fenton@which.net). Please note the issue will be fully refereed
and depending on contributors is likely to be published in early 2007 –
full papers will be submitted in June 2006.</p>
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