When the systems of domination are so durable and inventive, how can we enhance and redouble our efforts to bring about social justice? How should we reinvigorate our thinking on how contemporary societies may move beyond structures and systems of domination? How do we advance efforts at the re-humanisation of the oppressed, and indeed, of the oppressor? How can we sharpen our critiques? How should critical scholarship and activism engage despair? How do we create horizons of hope envisioning a world in which our diversity is protected and valued?  How should hope inform critical scholarship? What kind of hope should this be?

The conference aims to engage the interrelationships of liberation, hope and despair in the contexts of: achievements and failures of past struggles, normative social formations, emerging centres and margins, social and political institutions, identities and subjectivities, social movements and civil society amongst others.

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