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

Andy Blunden ablunden@mira.net
Mon Aug 25 08:24:53 PDT 2014


http://www.marxists.org/archive/bloch/index.htm
and I can provide the PDF of the whole book on request.
andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Jan Aukes wrote:
> That should be Ernst Bloch, I suppose. 
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>> Op 25 aug. 2014 om 06:29 heeft mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> 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> 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> 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>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> E-mail:chenjingjing007@hotmail.co.jp
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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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