This first episode of the podcast is about the concept of hope. I chose to start here because – to my suprise – it became the main theme of the course on crisis thinking I taught a while ago. It resonated deeply with the students and maybe these are times where thinking hope is just right. This episode was recorded in early October 2024. You can find it on Spotify and Apple Podcast. Or, oh loook, it is right here, too.

I hope you enjoy it!

And now What? – Episode 1 © 2024 by Ulrike Höppner is licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0 

Links and Literature

Cory Doctorow 2021: Hope, not optimism. https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/03/hope-not-optimism/

Ursula LeGuin 1974: The Dispossessed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed

Thomas Morus 1516: Utopia. Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book) for full text opions

Mathias Thaler 2018: Hope Abjuring Hope: On the Place of Utopia in Realist Political Theory. In Political Theory 46: 5. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591717740324

Charles R. Snyder 2002. Hope theory: Rainbows in the mind. In Psychological Inquiry 13:4, 249–275. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1304_01