Conclusion: Thinking with Pessimism

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on Contributors v
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt 1
6. PART I Theorizing Ambivalence
7. 1 Ambivalence as Misfeeling, Ambivalence as Refusal 13
8. 2 On (Not) Knowing What Is to Be Done (in 17 Affective Registers) 20
9. 3 Facing Defeat: Rosa Luxemburg in Dialogue with Prefigurative Politics 50
10. 4 Orchestrating the Furies: Anzaldúa’s Evolving Conception of Ambivalent Political Struggle 63
11. PART II Activism as Ambivalent Praxis
12. 5 An Activism of the In-between 77
13. 6 Resisting with People I Do Not Like: Exploring the Internal Tensions Among Queer Activists in Lagos, Nigeria 87
14. 7 Ambivalent Activism: Recontextualizing Mental Health Politics 103
15. 8 Ambivalence and Veganism: Rethinking Sentiment in Moral Choices 120
16. 9 The Embroidery Collective: Embroidering and Reimagining Community in Times of Struggle 133
17. 10 Ambivalent Emotions Empowering Activism: Learning from Youth Activists in Aotearoa 143
18. PART III Activism and the Ambivalent Academy
19. 11 Working with Discomfort: Contesting Ambivalence through Care and Accountability in the University of Edinburgh’s ‘Skull Room’ 159
20. 12 The Poetry of Ambivalence: A Nudge toward Tending 172
21. 13 The Role of ‘Stuckedness’: Ambivalence in Scholar-Activism 178
22. Conclusion: Thinking with Pessimism 190
23. Index 195