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oapen-20.500.12657-249322022-04-26T11:15:00Z Change and the politics of certainty Edkins, Jenny change certainty security desire fantasy hope intellectuals activists autobiographical narrative bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPB Comparative politics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations Despite the imperative for change in a world of persistent inequality, racism, oppression and violence, difficulties arise once we try to bring about a transformation. As scholars, students and activists, we may want to change the world, but we are not separate, looking in, but rather part of the world ourselves. The book demonstrates that we are not in control: with all our academic rigour, we cannot know with certainty why the world is the way it is, or what impact our actions will have. It asks what we are to do, if this is the case, and engages with our desire to seek change. Chapters scrutinise the role of intellectuals, experts and activists in famine aid, the Iraq war, humanitarianism and intervention, traumatic memory, enforced disappearance, and the Grenfell Tower fire, and examine the fantasy of security, contemporary notions of time, space and materiality, and ideas of the human and sentience. Plays and films by Michael Frayn, Chris Marker and Patricio Guzmán are considered, and autobiographical narrative accounts probe the author’s life and background. The book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope. 2019-12-03 08:32:13 2020-04-01T10:14:27Z 2020-04-01T10:14:27Z 2019 book 1005174 OCN: 1112437406 9781526147264 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24932 eng application/pdf n/a 9781526147264_fullhl.pdf https://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526119032/ Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526147264 10.7765/9781526147264 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd a897f645-c917-4be8-a0db-e8b3f64cac47 9781526147264 256 Manchester, UK University of Manchester open access
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Despite the imperative for change in a world of persistent inequality, racism, oppression and violence, difficulties arise once we try to bring about a transformation. As scholars, students and activists, we may want to change the world, but we are not separate, looking in, but rather part of the world ourselves. The book demonstrates that we are not in control: with all our academic rigour, we cannot know with certainty why the world is the way it is, or what impact our actions will have. It asks what we are to do, if this is the case, and engages with our desire to seek change. Chapters scrutinise the role of intellectuals, experts and activists in famine aid, the Iraq war, humanitarianism and intervention, traumatic memory, enforced disappearance, and the Grenfell Tower fire, and examine the fantasy of security, contemporary notions of time, space and materiality, and ideas of the human and sentience. Plays and films by Michael Frayn, Chris Marker and Patricio Guzmán are considered, and autobiographical narrative accounts probe the author’s life and background. The book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope.
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