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Hope

The Dream We Carry

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Authors:
  1. Tia DeNora

    1. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

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  • Presents ‘hope’ as an interdisciplinary and practitioner-oriented research topic

  • Sets hope in context of critical literatures on well-being, resilience, and activism, and considers how hope takes shape through cultural engagement

  • Uses examples taken from the history of social movements, politics, trauma studies, studies of migration and displacement, healthcare, mental well-being, occupations, religion and end of life studies

  • Speaks to readers about what hope can and cannot do, how hope can be constructive, while also introducing a grounded, culturally informed program of ‘hope studies’ to academics

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Hope: A Critical Introduction

    • Tia DeNora
    Pages 1-17

  3. Carrying the Dream

    • Tia DeNora
    Pages 19-49

  4. Hope, Health and Wellbeing

    • Tia DeNora
    Pages 51-73

  5. Cultivating Dreams

    • Tia DeNora
    Pages 75-104

  6. Social Hope

    • Tia DeNora
    Pages 105-130

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 131-150
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About this book

This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of ‘hope'. Based on the idea that hope is a dream that we carry in different ways, the five chapters draw on the author’s original research and align it with literature on the sociology of culture and emotion, to explore the concept in relation to cultural and community practices and mental health.


The climate crisis, violence, hostility, pandemics, homelessness, displacement, conflict, slavery, economic hardship and economic downturn, loneliness, anxiety, mental illness – are intensifying. There is a need for hope. There is also a need to confront hope - what is hope and what can, and cannot, be achieved by hoping. This confrontation includes distinguishing hope from wishful thinking and blind optimism. Using examples from different spheres of social life, including health, religion, music therapy, migration and social displacement, the book sets the  idea of hope in context of situations of uncertainty, challenge and pain, and goes on to highlight the practical application of these ideas and outline an agenda for further research on ‘hope'.         




  




Reviews

“Hope is the book we need as we face so much adversity in our lives. Innovative, original, truly exceptional, this book offers to its readers an inspiring walk into the landscape of a positive attitude towards the present and the future.Along this walk we meet Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream”, the silent but moving mountains described by Goethe’s“zarte Empirie”, poetry and music as technologies for hoping, Alzheimers and despair, confrontation with and resistance to illness and death. “Hope is the dream we carry” and Tia DeNora documents how that dream becomes a resource for action. Hope is that particular form of our thoughts that can orient the way in which we perceive reality and our attitude towards change. Hope is a positive and active form of attention that makes it possible for our dreams to contribute and shape our future-present. To hope has many individual and social consequences. This book is one of those rare ones that change the way of thinking of those who read it” (Anna Lisa Tota, University of Rome III, Italy)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Tia DeNora

About the author

Tia De Nora is Professor of Music Sociology at the University of Exeter, Professor II in Music Therapy at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen (GAMUT), and a PhD Associate at Nordoff Robbins London, UK. She is an elected Fellow of the British Academy and a member of its sections on Sociology, Demography, and Statistics and Music and Art History.           


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hope

  • Book Subtitle: The Dream We Carry

  • Authors: Tia DeNora

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69870-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69869-0Published: 22 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69870-6Published: 21 April 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 150

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Culture, Sociology, general, Emotion

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