Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms.
Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of 'cruel optimism'. Cruel optimism names a double‐bind in which attachment to an 'object' holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming. The lines between harming, sustainin...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 189; no. 1; pp. 143 - 161 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2023
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