[Xmca-l] Re: About 「hope 」 in socio-cultural research

Esther Goody eg100@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Wed Aug 27 09:38:38 PDT 2014


Dear Mike,
Can you send me  your ordinary email address?
Also for Sarah.
I tried to do the 'Linkline' system, but for some reason it
doesn't work with my system.
	Thanks,
		Esther

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[mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of mike cole
Sent: 25 August 2014 16:30
To: Jan Aukes
Cc: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re:About 「hope 」 in socio-cultural research

Thanks  -- confusing generations of Blochs. The book remains highly
recommended and my thanks for the correction.
Mike

On Monday, August 25, 2014, Jan Aukes <jana@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> That should be Ernst Bloch, I suppose.
>
> > Op 25 aug. 2014 om 06:29 heeft mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> het volgende geschreven:
> >
> > To add to the suggestions-- I recommend that you find a copy of "The
> > Principle of Hope" by Maurice Bloch. Parts of it are at marxists.org but
> > a reading of the whole would be worth everyone's while.
> > mike
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Zavala, Miguel <
> > mizavala@exchange.fullerton.edu <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> Jing Jing,
> >>
> >> I recommend looking at the work of Paulo Freire.  There are
> >> cultural-historical strands in his work, in particular the grounding in
> >> Historical Materialism.
> >>
> >> You also might want to look at how hope is mediated and how it mediates
> >> other processes.  One thing I've been looking at is how hope is
> generated
> >> in and through the very experience of marginalization / oppression. The
> >> experience of marginalization / oppression, when we 'take a distance'
> from
> >> it (I.e. Reflect critically) becomes a resource for transforming that
> very
> >> marginalization / oppression.
> >>
> >> I think hope is also found in the quiet corners of mediation, always
> >> present, the distance between 'subject' and 'object' opening horizons
of
> >> possibility for learning and development.  Without getting to obscure
> >> here, hope is mediation.
> >>
> >> Miguel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 8/24/14 2:55 PM, "Ed Wall" <ewall@umich.edu <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> JingJing
> >>>
> >>>    Paul Ricoeur's work can be mined for a take on hope. His notion
> >>> involves expectation and anticipation. For instance,  "hope is the
> >>> dynamism of desire projecting its own realization";  and "hope is a
> >>> deep-seated human trait, constitutive of human nature itself." I (and
I
> >>> am sure he doesn't either) think of this as cognitive, but I don't
> think
> >>> he necessarily thinks of this as entirely socio-cultural either.
> Anyway,
> >>> Huskey has written a book pulling his thoughts on this topic together:
> >>> 'Paul Riceour on Hope.'
> >>>
> >>> Ed Wall
> >>>
> >>>> On Aug 24, 2014, at  4:09 PM, Greg Thompson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> JingJing,
> >>>> You should check out Lois Holzman's work (Vygotsky at Work and Play
> >>>> would
> >>>> be a very good place for you to start). She is working with a
> >>>> population in
> >>>> New York City that is roughly equivalent to the population that you
> are
> >>>> researching.
> >>>>
> >>>> I suspect that she might shy away from the word "hope" for fear that
> >>>> hope
> >>>> itself can be an empty thing (as in a palliative "false hope"). I
> think
> >>>> she
> >>>> would probably prefer to speak of something like "possibilities of
> >>>> becoming".  But I'd rather hear from her on this matter since I'm
just
> >>>> making this up in the hope that she bring some of her wisdom to this
> >>>> thread.
> >>>>
> >>>> -greg
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:57 AM, 陳 晶晶 <chenjingjing007@hotmail.co.
jp
> <javascript:;>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Dear XMAL community:
> >>>>> My name is Jingjing Chen, a graduate student of doctoral program  in
> >>>>> department of Psychology.I am sending this email to search for some
> >>>>> help.
> >>>>> I am interested in the development of hope among high school
students
> >>>>> (especially whom is studying in a vocational high school , where
most
> >>>>> students are from poor disadvantaged family in Japan.)Previous
> research
> >>>>> are more like viewing  hope as a cognitive and individual
ingredient,
> >>>>> while I am trying to describe it using socio-cultural approach.
> >>>>> I am still looking for  more information about hope research, so any
> >>>>> published work about hope or any relational research will be very
> >>>>> helpful
> >>>>> for me.It will also be a great honor and pleasure if anyone can give
> me
> >>>>> suggestion about my project.
> >>>>> Thank you for your attention.All the best wishes.
> >>>>> sincerelyJingJing
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>
> >>>>> JingJing Chen
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Doctoral Program in Psychology,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Graduate School of Comprehensive Human
> >>>>> Sciences,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> University of Tsukuba
> >>>>>
> >>>>> E-mail:s1330355@u.tsukuba.ac.jp <javascript:;>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> E-mail:chenjingjing007@hotmail.co.jp <javascript:;>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
> >>>> Assistant Professor
> >>>> Department of Anthropology
> >>>> 882 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
> >>>> Brigham Young University
> >>>> Provo, UT 84602
> >>>> http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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