Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction: Dark Hope in the Anthropocene 1
6. Part I Agency
7. 1. The Anthropocene and the Unseen: Speculative, Pragmatic and Nihilist Hope 21
8. 2. A Hope Against Hope: Scandal, Cynicism and Critique in the Wake of the COVID-19 Polycrisis 37
9. 3. Working for ‘Minor Utopias’: Youth Employment in Sierra Leone and Liberia 51
10. 4. Visualising Hope in the Radical Data Work of W. E. B. Du Bois 68
11. 5. A Feminist Ethic of Care for Orienting Utopia in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico 86
12. Part II Governance
13. 6. Enduring Hopelessness: Governance without Horizon in Pandemic Times 103
14. 7. Securing the Hopeful Subject? The Militarisation of Complexity Science and the Limits of Decolonial Critique 119
15. 8. The Hope–Colonialism Nexus 135
16. 9. Hopeful Times, Black Futures, and Things Quantum Technologies Tell about International Institutions 150
17. 10. In the Breaches of Cancelled Futures: The Entropies of Modernisation and Ecological Recomposition 167
18. Part III Negation
19. 11. Hope and the End of Critique? Crisis and Affirmation in the Anthropocene 185
20. 12. Hope in a World That Will Never End? The Problem of Fanatical Hope in Critical Dystopias 201
21. 13. Hope Makes Strange: Affect, Hope and Strangeness 217
22. 14. Reimagining Hopeful Anthropocene Futures: From Entanglements to Radical Openness 231
23. 15. Hope as a Theopolitical Virtue: Eschatology and End-of-Time Politics 247
24. Hope: An Epilogue 262
25. Index 266