Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Confronting the Storm: Regenerating Leadership and Hope in the Age of Uncertainty
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In his book Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, Stephen Duncombe wrote that ‘unless progressives acknowledge and accept a politics of imagination, desire and spectacle, and most important, make it ethical and make it our own, we will bring about our “ruin rather than preservation”.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
What if the answers were to be found not in the bleak solitude of survivalism and isolation, in the tweaking of ruthless commercialism, or in the dream that some electable saviour will come riding to our rescue, but rather in reconnection to community? As we put it: ‘If we wait for governments, it will be too late. If we act as individuals, it will
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Instead of a holistic and intersectional approach, entrenched in the ability to tap into collective support structures as a form of personal resilience, healing is depoliticised and rendered a singular and individual trauma chronically dependent on a capitalist and extractivist commercialisation of Indigenous knowledge (Yoga, Ayahuasca, herbal medi... See more