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Informal Session: Reclaiming Hope The informal session “Reclaiming Hope” was the site of a lively discussion orbiting around a series of interrelated questions: What freedom dreams and figures of hope populate the political imaginary of the Pacific? What strategies are being deployed in Oceania for entering and exiting from global entanglements? How are different imaginings about the future generating new sorts of persons, social relations, and political and cultural formations? In addition to short presentations by Jacob Nerenberg, Eben Kirksey, Tate LeFevre, and Lamont Lindstrom – we had a lively presentation from Alex Mawyer. Our discussion was digitally recorded and we intend to publish a summary of our discussion on an anthropological website. S. Eben Kirksey, Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Fellow, Science Studies, Room 5109, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309, USA; tel. + 1 212-817-7094, cell: +1 831-600-5937, eben.kirksey@gmail.com Tate LeFevre, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA; tlefevre@gmail.com, ph (+01) 845 807-7112 |
