Working Hope: Around Labour and Value in a Humanitarian Context

Authors

  • Alicia Sliwinski Wilfrid Laurier University

Keywords:

Hope, value, practice, labour, humanitarianism, reconstruction

Abstract

This paper discusses a reading of hope as it ties to
action that can be useful to analyze social phenomena. Whereas
hope is often described according to its future-oriented temporal
outlook, as either a cognitive stance, a feeling or mood, and often
refers to Utopian modes of thinking, it is more rarely considered
as a particular instantiation shaping social dynamics. Drawing
from ethnographic fieldwork in a post-disaster humanitarian
reconstruction site, this paper explores how tying the notion of
hope to that of value may enrich our appreciation of hope as a
category relevant to agency.

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Published

2012-11-30

How to Cite

Sliwinski, A. (2012). Working Hope: Around Labour and Value in a Humanitarian Context. Anthropologica, 54(2), 227–238. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/884

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 2 (2012): Good Spirit, Good Medicine: Religious Foundations of Healing in the Caribbean

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Copyright (c) 2012 Alicia Swilinski

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