Emancipation and Hope
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 592, p. 79-98
ISSN: 1552-3349
This article concludes that the best way to trigger the reciprocal relationship between hope & emancipation is to innovate with institutions that jointly build hope & emancipation. Handouts to the poor without nurturing optimism to empower themselves to solve their own problems are not the solution. Neither is a psychologism that builds hope without concrete support & the flow of resources needed for structural change. Cognitive change in how people imagine a better world, microinstitutional change (illustrated here with the "Emancipation Conference"), & macro-structural change must be strategically integrated for emancipatory polities to be credible. 1 Figure, 1 Appendix, 29 References. [Copyright 2004 Sage Publications, Inc.]