Imagining the Impossible: An Act of Radical Hope

as we go against such formidable constraints, we can still rely on the quintessentially human capacity to hope, to imagine and to envision new possibilities for environmental action, justice and peace. The possible re-emerges as an organising category in our lives and our thinking not despite but because of living through the seemingly impossible a

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Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more

our engagement with possibility is, at all times, constrained (e.g., by what is, by previous imaginations of what could be, by their enactment). This doesn’t mean that we cannot envision radical possibilities but that constraints – themselves never fully fixed in time and space – are enablers of our relationship with what is possible, both in its m

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