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Hope at the Margins
Responding to Climate Crisis
Hope at the Margins
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Grounded in geologian Thomas Berry's vision of hope, this volume argues that in spite of the global experience of climate and ecological crisis affecting all forms of life on the planet, hope prevails.
Berry maintains that all life is transitioning from a period of devastation in which we currently live to a period when humans will be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner. He calls this new period the Ecozoic Era, one that the human community must help to usher in for the flourishing of all life, present and future. While some thinkers and environmentalists would say that hope comes from taking radical and decisive mitigative action quickly, pinning all hope to mitigation would leave life vulnerable if mitigative action does not create positive outcomes. For those who are already dealing with devastation and the loss of their traditional ways of life, there is need for other forms of hope. We suggest that one source of hope is to work towards community with non-human members of the Earth's community. But there are no doubt other sources of hope as well. Hence, this volume focuses on responses of hope, broadly conceived, to the climate and ecological devastation crisis. The contributors reconceptualize hope, thereby challenging traditional ways of thinking about environmental devastation offered to our world.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Exile and Return: Empathy, Hope, and the Awakening of a New Diaspora: Michael Andrews
Chapter Two: Radical Hope: Civil Society Confronts Climate Justice in Small Island Developing States: Neil Oculi, Kieran Maynard, and Mark A. Boyer
Chapter Three: Destructive Hope? Apocalypse as Queer Eco-Spiritual Practice: Brandy Daniels
Chapter Four: Neo-liberal Mining in the Philippines: Destruction, Resistance, Re-Envisioning: Christina A. Astorga
Chapter Five: Climate Hope through the Land: An Indigenous Decolonial Framework for Post-Apocalyptic Climate Hope: Brian Burkhart
Chapter Six: Rays of Hope: The Bible between Environmental and Indigenous Concerns in the Church of Norway: Tina Dykesteen Nilsen
Chapter Seven: Dalit Earth: Listening to the Ecological Wisdom of the Broken People: Joshua Samuel
Chapter Eight: Ground of Being: Reading Psalm 37 with the Maasai: Beth E. Elness-Hanson
Chapter Nine: African Traditional Notion of Vitality as a Pathway to Eco-intimacy: Mark Omorovie Ikeke
Chapter Ten: A Community of Subjects is a Community of Conscious Beings: Non-Human Consciousness and a New Environmental Vision: Norah Martin
Chapter Eleven: Voices of the Wilderness: Ecospiritual and Ecotherapeutic Practices for Cultivating Intimacy with the More-Than-Human World: Rachel Wheeler
Chapter Twelve: Shifting Paradigms to Embrace a Cosmic Consciousness: Carol J. Dempsey, OP
Epilogue: Earth Democracy: The Democracy of All Being: Vandana Shiva
Product details
| Published | Feb 19 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781978715578 |
| Imprint | Fortress Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Dispatches from the New Diaspora |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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