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...

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Published in:	Geographical Journal Vol. 189; no. 1; pp. 143 - 161
Main Authors:	Anderson, Ben, Awal, Akanksha, Cockayne, Daniel, Greenhough, Beth, Linz, Jess, Mazumdar, Anurag, Nassar, Aya, Pettit, Harry, Roe, Emma J., Ruez, Derek, Salas Landa, Mónica, Secor, Anna, Williams, Aelwyn
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2023
Subjects:	Optimism Ambivalence Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
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