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Lesson Plans as Objects of Cruel Optimism and the Rhizome as a Way Out
Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2023 The objective of this article is to use a theoretical framework to reconceptualize the process and purpose of lesson planning as a way to liberate teachers from systems that prevent educator and student flourishing.
Allyson Compton
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Hvis universitetet var en biotop
Tidsskrift for Professionsstudier, 2021 In this essay I experiment with Lauren Berlant’s idea of ‘cruel optimism’ to investigate how policies of responsible conduct of research in academia have effects beyond efforts at establishing a spotless university.
Jette Kofoed
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I want what everyone wants: cruel optimism in HBO's 'Girls'
, 2016 This chapter considers the HBO tv series 'Girls' as enacting the cultural theorist Lauren Berlant's notion of cruel optimism, specifically with regards its portrayal of millennial precarity: financial, social and emotional.
Ruth Charnock (17155372)
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Cruel Apprenticeship: National Imaginaries in China’s Operating Rooms
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2022 Doctors learn to be doctors through clinical or therapeutic apprenticeships. By following, observing, and being mentored by more experienced physicians, trainees at various stages acquire embodied knowledge, affects, and ethics via both taught and hidden
Bonnie O. Wong
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Hope, optimism and delusion [PDF]
, 2014 Optimism is generally accepted by psychiatrists, psychologists and other caring professionals as a feature of mental health. Interventions typically rely on cognitive-behavioural tools to encourage individuals to ‘stop negative thought cycles’ and to ...
McGuire-Snieckus, R
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Evaluating the Meaning of Life through Reflection on Its Images in Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri’s Works [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri (973-1057), a prominent blind and pessimistic poet and thinker in the Arab world, uses various images about life, through which the meaning of life can be analyzed. These images include suffering, disease, prison, poisonous snake,
Yadollah Rostami, Saham Mokhless
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Optimismo cruel y apetito obsesivo en las novelas de Leïla Slimani
Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Literaris, 2022 Este artículo explora los apetitos obsesivos en Chanson Douce, de Leïla Slimani, traducida al inglés en el Reino Unido con el título Lullaby y en Estados Unidos como The Perfect Nanny, y Dans le jardin de l'ogre, traducida como Adèle.
Kathryn Robson
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The Digital Divide and Futurist Imaginings of Zelle‐ous Resistors
Social Inclusion, 2023 The “digital divide” is widely acknowledged as exacerbating inequality by leaving some people on one side or the other of a knowledge divide without access to appropriate tools for the future and all the opportunities that digital technology promises ...
Daniela Peluso
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The Cruel Optimism of Suicide Prevention: thinking beyond the mental health model [PDF]
Suicide has long been constructed as an individual, pathological problem of the mind, requiring a combination of clinical care and interpersonal support to prevent it.
Hazel Marzetti (17246416) +3 more
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Documenting Attachment: 'Affective border control in applications for family reunification'
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2019 From 2002 to 2018, Denmark was the only country in the world to enforce a migration law demanding that couples seeking family reunification in Denmark documented their combined “attachment” to the Danish nation.
Sofie Jeholm, Mons Bissenbakker
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