{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65fdbb4fb5218f00171445c9/66fa7b0a7460b64dce00a644?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"We're back, hope you missed us!","description":"<p>The Hopeful Reader returns after a little summer hiatus! In this episode, we reflect on the place of ‘hope’ in the current socio-political epoch; drawing upon John Holloway’s ‘Hope in Hopeless Times’, we explore how relational forms of rage-hope might mobilise queer revolutionary politics…Why do we call ourselves ‘hopeful’ readers in supposedly ‘hopeless times’? If that all sounds like a lot, you can also look forward to some hot takes on worm communes, the latest J Wils novel and a whole host of other antics…</p><p><br></p><p>References:&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Berlant, L. (2022) On the Inconvenience of Other People. Durham: Duke University Press.&nbsp;</p><p>Holloway, J. (2022) Hope in Hopeless Times. London: Pluto Press.&nbsp;</p><p>Pedwell, C. (2021) Revolutionary Routines: The habits of social transformation. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.&nbsp;</p><p>Ruti, M. (2017) The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory’s Defiant Subjects. New York: Columbia University Press.</p><p>Queering the Map - www.queeringthemap.com</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Finola Stowe"}