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Hope and Collective Futures <\/b><\/span><\/h2>

PERC Seminar Series, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Hope and Collective Futures <\/b><\/span><\/h2>

PERC Seminar Series, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In a time of socio-ecological crisis, hope can feel both necessary and suspect. As Ernst Bloch reminds us, hope is not the same as optimism: it reaches beyond the present while looking within the world for what might help the world become otherwise. <\/span><\/p>\n

This seminar series features global speakers practising a critical hope, one that neither denies ecological and political crisis nor surrenders to despair, but attends to the struggles, creative practices and collective agencies through which more just socio-ecological futures are made.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In a time of socio-ecological crisis, hope can feel both necessary and suspect. As Ernst Bloch reminds us, hope is not the same as optimism: it reaches beyond the present while looking within the world for what might help the world become otherwise. <\/span><\/p>\n

This seminar series features global speakers practising a critical hope, one that neither denies ecological and political crisis nor surrenders to despair, but attends to the struggles, creative practices and collective agencies through which more just socio-ecological futures are made. <\/span><\/p>\n

The next seminar is Transformative care in the meantime: Shaping the future through collective action with Professor Kelly Dombroski.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thurs 1 October 12PM NZST, 10AM AEST; Weds 31 September 5PM PDT; 8PM EDT.<\/p>\n

Join online here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Scholars of care labour caution that care labour can be caught up in maintaining business as usual in the form of exploitative capitalist relations. But care labour also contributes to survivance \u2014 cultural and economic survival in the face of oppression. What else might care labour do?<\/em><\/div>\n
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In this seminar, I introduce an approach to thinking about care labour based on mapping 'care surplus flows' \u2014 the generation, appropriation and distribution of care surplus. Through an analysis of four case studies, I propose that the more collective forms of 'care surplus flow' enable place-based transformations, and that these transformations increase future-shaping capacities for a wider range of marginalised groups. Care labour can thus contribute to maintenance, survivance\u00a0and\u00a0resurgent transformation, depending on how it is organised.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Catch up with past events:<\/strong><\/p>\n