A New Podcast on the Value of Disappointment in Resistance

I was invited, by Karen Wells, Professor of Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, to record a podcast on how disappointment can help us think about the scope for effective political change in these dark times.

Karen and I discussed whether theorising disappointment is making a virtue of necessity given the current world conjunction. We also talked about the ways in which the politics of disappointed hope invites us to reimagine the afterlife of revolutionary possibility.

The podcast will serve as a teaching resource on the Riots, Rebels, Revolutions course at Birkbeck, University of London. The students have been reading my articles on The Disappointment of Rosa Luxemburg and Disappointed Hope, and I hope the podcast encourages them to engage with my work!