Hope and Solarpunk

Following hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, Ariel wants to address the idea of hope head-on in this post.

Hope is an affect (aka feeling that drives action) that I’ve been thinking about for a while, ever since I was a graduate student. “Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but I’m not sure that it’s very well understood or theorized in this day and age. Because most people equate the concept of hope with that of naïve positivity and intentional ignorance of “reality”.