Agency and cruel optimism in the care obfuscations of UK-based academic mothers
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DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01373-0
Abstract: This article introduces the concept of “care obfuscation”, developed from interviews with 32 UK-based academic mothers about their experience of the transition to parenthood. Care obfuscation refers to the workplace conduct of hiding, underestimating or… read more here.
Keywords: cruel optimism; care; obfuscation; based academic ... See more keywords
Being late, going with the flow, always doing more: the cruel optimism of higher education in Jordan
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DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2019.1659444
Abstract: Abstract Berlant’s notion of cruel optimism refers to investments in material structures, social norms, and ideological claims of being that work against individual and collective flourishing. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data spanning 2007–2016, this… read more here.
Keywords: late going; going flow; flow always; education ... See more keywords
From cruel optimism to foreclosed futures: The emotional and temporal dimensions of enduring precarity among young adults in Barcelona
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DOI: 10.1177/02637758251364077
Abstract: This paper contributes to geographical research on precarity by exploring how emotional responses to enduring insecurity shape young people's temporal horizons, spatial belonging, and sense of possibility. Drawing on qualitative research in Barcelona, I advance… read more here.
Keywords: cruel optimism; futures emotional; precarity; optimism foreclosed ... See more keywords