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Beyond 'Majulah': homonationalism and cruel optimism in pink dot

open access: yes, 2023
Pink Dot is considered one of the most successful civil society movements in recent Singapore history. Pink Dot’s approach has been described in terms of ‘pragmatic resistance', where gay activists adhere to the formal law and cultural norms, while push ...
Ang, Abigail Zi Hui
core  

The Myth of Decarbonized Oil: Technological Fixes, Climate Delay, and the Politics of Low‐Carbon Fossil Fuels

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The idea of “decarbonized oil” has become increasingly visible in climate, energy, and corporate transition debates as oil and gas actors seek to reconcile continued fossil fuel production with net‐zero commitments. This article offers a critical narrative review of the concept, asking what political work the idea of decarbonized oil performs ...
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Cruel optimistic community upgrades: collapsing socialisation in two Shanghainese urban villages

open access: yesCity, Territory and Architecture
Beyond the primary domains of home and workplace, third places play a crucial role in fostering social cohesion within marginalised communities. In Shanghai’s urban villages, the dissolution of socialisation opportunities coincides with community ...
Goran Ivo Marinovic
doaj   +1 more source

"Unstable, in Chaos": Reading Ali Smith’s How to Be Both and Percival Everett’s Telephone in the Age of Cruel Optimism

open access: yesC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
Many of the formal innovations of contemporary fiction arise from a collective sense of ceaseless crisis—a recognition that traditional modes of storytelling, forged in earlier cultural climates, may now be overrun and unable to accommodate an age of ...
Gerald David Naughton
doaj   +2 more sources

Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“County residents take the fight”: Representing rural resilience

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
Celebrations of local volunteering as a way to cope with cutbacks are frequent. Not least are such celebrations apparent within the media, where descriptions of local initiatives are sometimes seen as the solutions to downward spiralling trends in ...
Anna Sofia Lundgren, Karin Ljuslinder
doaj   +1 more source

Design Thinking, Collaborative Innovation, and Neoliberal Disappointment: Cruel Optimism in the History and Future of Higher Education

open access: yesRadical Teacher, 2019
The extensive amount of academic labor of minoritized faculty, especially at research institutions, has been well documented in the academic literature.
Kate Catterall   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visionary, engineer, and experimenter: Three forms of entrepreneurship in the quest for product–market fit

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research summary Entrepreneurship unfolds under uncertainty, which complicates entrepreneurs' efforts to align idea, action, and environment to reach product–market fit. To illuminate how entrepreneurs perform such alignment, we complement the theory‐based view and its focus on cognitive uncertainty with a discussion of behavioral uncertainty.
Thomas Zellweger, Djordje Djokovic
wiley   +1 more source

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Search for Alternatives

open access: yesJournal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
This article argues that queer theories of affect not only offer an alternative approach to analyzing the horror film in the twenty-first century, but also that a new wave of horror media negotiates its social criticism in newly queer ways. Analyzing Ari
Lukas Hellmuth
doaj   +1 more source

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