Welcome to Planet Hope!

While capitalism is inherently prone to crisis, the present catastrophe has touched the core of modern civilization. The multifaceted crisis of capitalism and modernity -called a crisis of civilization- is apparent in the increasing impossibility of stopping human suffering and attaining the social reproduction of human and nonhuman life on the planet.

I am opening a new post-disciplinary research activist field of decolonial, feminist, open Marxist, and critical theory, connected to/with grassroots movements' praxis: the global politics of hope. Join me! The global politics of hope (GPH) aims to recover the prefigurative role of social inquiry. One of the premises of the GPH is that the key to unlocking the critical global situation resides with those communities and social movements simultaneously resisting the multiple effects of the debacle and producing alternative concrete pedagogical, economic, cultural, political, and social practices.

Ernst Bloch’s process materialist philosophy of hope is at the center of my social research. I understand hope as a category of praxis. My work focuses on the contradictory processes of transformation led by social, labor, indigenous, urban, and rural movements, by which they create concrete utopias. The latter challenges patriarchal colonial capitalist social relations and creates alternative practices. There is an apparent disconnect between social sciences and society and an inadequacy of the concepts and approaches used to address global capital's monumental failure to promise a credible future. The GPH focuses on understanding the changes 'societies in movement' are bringing about. This task requires a fundamental renewal of our critical tools, approaches, concepts, and theories, including a critique of Western male-dominated and Eurocentric critical theory, a critique of abstract universality, and a re-conceptualization of utopia.

My profiles

• University research portal

• Academia.edu

• Google Scholar Citations

• Research Gate

  MY VIDEOS

• The art of organizing hope

• TAOH Alternative Summit, Ghent 2018

  MY NETWORKS

• Decolonising Knowledge in Teaching, Research, and Practice (Research Hub, Bath)

• The Standing Seminar for Critical Theory (SWDTP)

• The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (Global)

• Women on the Verge (International)

• CLACSO (regional, Latin America)
  

MY KEYNOTES, WEBI/SEMINARS, TALKS

2023

April 26 - The Global Politics of Hope. Activist research for a promising world convened by DECkNO, University of Bath https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-globa l-politics-of-hope-tickets-608260833527

2022

Keynote, ‘Weaving hope in the Multiversum’ Hope Stock, May 10-12, https://www.hopestock.co.uk

Hope as Praxis, Workshop, co-hosted by the ‘Diversity and Difference Platform’ Copenhagen Business School & Research for Digitalization, Diversity and Democracy of Hasselt University &Organization Studies of the School of Governance of Utrecht University. May 3

2021

Inaugural Lecture: ‘La Esperanza en tiempos de destruccion’, La techne educativa, Facxulty of Social Science, University of Rosario, 17 Nov: https://www.latechneeducativa.com.ar

Plenary Speaker: The Challenges of Feminism, 4th Conference of Marxism-Feminism 12. November Bilbao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frFB6pmijv8

Plenary Speaker, Panel: Decoloniality & Degrowth at the 8th International Degrowth Conference - Caring Communities for Radical Change, August 28, ISS, The Hague. https://marxfemconference.net/2021/10/20/bhattacharya-cabnal-curiel-delphy-dinerstein-dorlin-federici-fraser-hhaug-and-kergoat-on-the-4th-conference/

Annual Lecture ‘Hope, Resistance and Critique: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Destruction,’ Studium Generale Lecture Series, AP University College, Antwerp, October 27.

13th June BUKO 39: Global Change? System Change! Global Solidarity. https://buko39.buko.info/en

April 14 at 2:00 pm - Annual lecture. Decolonising Critique. Reconnecting critical theory with radical praxis. Convened by the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, De Montfort University. Free/online event. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-critique-reconnecting-critical-theory-with-radical-praxis-tickets-147977305103.