Middle Hope

Joe Gerlach

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Middle Hope

Joe Gerlach

School of Geographical Sciences

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How does one hope? In this short essay, I narrate moments from time spent at Middle Hope, a small coastal inlet of the Severn Estuary, England. These moments aim to offer, hesitantly, brief respite from certain liberal narratives that rely upon the promulgation of ‘hope’ as a reasonable societal disposition with which to face planetary transformation. I suggest, instead, a turn to ambivalence and melancholy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	333-339
Number of pages	7
Journal	Cultural geographies
Volume	24
Issue number	2
Early online date	22 Nov 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016680105
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2017

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