Charting a politics of hope through representation

Charting new frontiers of hope in Pakistan.

In 2001, following several years of hard work by key figures in the field of blindness prevention, the federal minister of health for Pakistan signed the VISION 2020 declaration. However, despite this high-level political commitment, no government funding was allocated to the prevention of blindness. Prior to 2001, great progress had already been made in reducing the prevalence of blindness in ...

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

Toward a Politics of Possibility: Charting Shifts in Utopian Imagination through the World Social Forum Process

In a workshop entitled "Utopia and politics" at the fifth World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Nobel Laureate José Saramago squared off with famed Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. While Galeano celebrated the "utopian impulse", Saramago said: I consider the concept of utopia worse than useless....What has transformed the world is not utopia, but need....The only time and place where our w...

Redemptive Organizations and the Politics of Hope

The politics of hope of this article is rooted in the local leadership of low income, repressed communities. One central element of the politics of hope is redemptive organizations. These organizations are a variant of voluntary associations that are distinguished by their explicitly political purpose of social transformation and concomitant requirement of personal sacrifice and transformation....

A study of viewpoints of English language instructors to motivate Lerner to learning English through curricular; representation of a Model

One of the problems of students’ entrance from secondary education to  university is lack of English language skills  and incentive to improve their learning. This research aims to identify the ways to strengthen English language skills with an emphasis on undergraduate students' motivation. This research is qualitative approach and Grounded theory strategy. The study population has been consis...