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Roberts, S. "Cruel Optimism." Common Knowledge 19, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 383–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2073416.

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Berlant, L. "Cruel Optimism." differences 17, no. 3 (January 1, 2006): 20–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2006-009.

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Emily Dianne Cram. "Cruel Optimism." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 17, no. 2 (2014): 371. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0371.

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Docot, Dada, Jessica Hallenbeck, Paige Patchin, Paul Pickell, and Duncan Ranslem. "Cruel optimism." Gender, Place & Culture 20, no. 4 (June 2013): 551–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2013.795723.

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Miller, Jacob C. "Book Review: Cruel Optimism." Human Geography 7, no. 1 (March 2014): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861400700114.

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Coleman, Rebecca. "Cruel optimism Lauren Berlant." Feminist Theory 16, no. 1 (March 24, 2015): 109–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700113513085.

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Allan, Jonathan A. "Masculinity as cruel optimism." NORMA 13, no. 3-4 (April 17, 2017): 175–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2017.1312949.

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Coates, Jamie. "The Cruel Optimism of Mobility." positions: asia critique 27, no. 3 (August 1, 2019): 469–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7539277.

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Over the past thirty years, moving overseas has been a positively valued aspiration in China. On both a government level, and within popular discourse, migration has been propagated as a means to be better citizens, and a better nation, resonating with families’ desire for a better life. However, there are consequences for those who move, in terms of belonging and how they imagine their life projects. This article extends the established scholarship on mobility out of China by comparing the rhetorical construction of mobility with the experiences of Chinese migrants in Japan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among educationally channeled Chinese migrants in Tokyo, I show how the imaginaries that shape migrant projects are constituted by conflicting aspirations and desires. The mismatch between daily experiences and discursively informed perceptions of what constitutes a “good life” and “success,” in many senses resemble what Lauren Berlant has called “cruel optimism.” Educationally channeled migration out of China is posited as a desirable object-idea that is “cruel” because the “cluster of promises” that constitute its “optimism” cannot be reconciled with the mobile lifeworlds of many Chinese transnational migrants. Due to the impossibility of simultaneously achieving the promises of success, pleasing one’s family, and attaining a sense of cosmopolitanism, many migrants resign themselves to the instabilities of mobile life. Their experiences are suggestive of the consequences of a world that increasingly celebrates mobility, with implications for how “being at home in the world” is imagined today.
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Cooley, Will. "Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant." American Studies 52, no. 3 (2013): 79–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ams.2013.0065.

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Kessel, Alisa. "The cruel optimism of sexual consent." Contemporary Political Theory 19, no. 3 (November 7, 2019): 359–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00362-8.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Cruel optimism"

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Löfholm, Nora. "I själen alltid ren : En multimodal kritisk diskursanalys av hur det goda livet porträtteras i reklam för hemstädning i Sverige." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Genusvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46303.

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This thesis explores how visions of the good life, as understood by Lauren Berlant, communicate through advertising for home cleaning services in a Swedish context. With an ambition to map out how life is portrayed in these commercials this thesis wants to shed light on how these portrayals of life can be understood as the good life and in turn, how they reproduce structures of power. In relation to research on the debate of the Swedish Rutavdrag, work/life balance and the perception of cleaning in Sweden the thesis continues to look into how paid cleaning service is constructed and understood. It draws on theories about work, emotion/affect and temporality that is tied together in an understanding of the good life as dependent of all of these to become possible. A promotion of happiness and feelings of intimacy, work induced with emotional value and a productivist temporality are all parts of what makes up the good life, that is what I pay attention to in my analysis. Through a multimodal critical discourse analysis, the material is analyzed in three steps where the first two steps is focused on one individual commercial/ad and the third connects several of them to analyze how the good life is depicted. The analysis is divided into two main themes: time for relationships and Win win. The first theme shows an emphasis on close family relationships that appears to be threatened by cleaning or mainly conflicts about cleaning, the service smooth over the frictions and makes an intimate life enjoyable and improved. The good life here is closely linked to good relationships and busy schedules. The second theme Win win analyses material that focuses on how the work and the workers situation. In this theme a picture emerges of the employer as someone who does a good deed by employing someone through a good company that has good conditions. This theme implicitly addresses the tension that surrounds cleaning services in Sweden and dissolves it with smiles. While wrapping the service good feelings and the promise of good deeds the unequal exchange changes into something natural and good. The good life is not as obvious in this theme, the focus on the good conditions rather promotes home cleaning as a possible part of the good life since it does not disturb the narrative of the good life as a moral good. In order to have an opportunity to move towards the good life, time is needed.
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Mörner, Walter Lotte. "När dövidentiteten blir ett kapital : En antropologisk studie kring identitet hos döva flyktingar i Sverige." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158864.

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Den här uppsatsen handlar om döva flyktingar och har tre huvudteman: dövhet och asylprocessen för döva flyktingar, och för att förstå det i en svensk kontext är det tredje temat dövhet historiskt i Sverige och internationellt. Fältarbetet är gjort under en månads tid i början av 2018 på en folkhögskola i Sverige och metoder som tillämpats är deltagande observation och intervjuer. Folkhögskolan har i samarbete med Migrationsverket sedan 2009 i uppgift att utbilda döva asylsökande i svenskt teckenspråk, som i många fall blir det första språket, för att de ska kunna uppge skäl för asyl. Frågeställningen berör hur dessa personer upplever sin identitet och hur den förändras och produceras. Det är två av folkhögskolans grupper, en grupp med och en grupp utan uppehållstillstånd, som jämförs och ligger till grund för denna uppsats.
This essay is about deaf refugees and has three main themes: deafness and the asylum process for deaf refugees, and to understand it in a Swedish context, the third theme is deafness historically in Sweden and internationally. The fieldwork has been done for a month at the beginning of 2018 at a school in Sweden and methods used are participant observations and interviews. The school has since 2009, in cooperation with the Swedish Migration Board, been responsible for training deaf asylum seekers in Swedish sign language, which in many cases becomes the first language in order to give reasons for asylum. The question concerns how these people perceive their identity and how it is changed and produced. The study is mainly based on two groups. One group with and one group without a residence permit are being compared and form the basis for this essay.
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Nguyen, Thanh Hao. "Gestion optimale d’un système multi-réservoirs pour le contrôle des crues : Application au bassin versant du Vu Gia Thu Bon, Vietnam." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020COAZ4027.

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Ce travail de recherche a comme objectif de développer les méthodes d’évaluation des opérations des retenues, nécessaires à la protection contre les crues du bassin versant Vu Gia Thu Bon. La stratégie de contrôle des crues est basée sur un modèle qui associe simulation-optimisation. La fonction objective consiste à minimiser les dégâts totaux d’inondation qui dépend des débits ou des hauteurs d’eau dans les secteurs aval.La méthode proposée comporte trois composants majeurs : (1) la simulation des débits et des niveaux d'eau réalisée par un modèle hydraulique 1D ; (2) la simulation des opérations pour la production hydroélectrique réalisée par un module d'opération de structure ; (3) un modèle d'optimisation (algorithme Shuffled Complex Evolution) destiné à obtenir les règles optimales d’opération pour les retenues.La méthode a été mise en œuvre avec succès pour le système multi-réservoirs dans le bassin versant du Vu Gia Thu Bon, Vietnam. Les performances du modèle d’opération et optimisation pour gestion des crues ont été évaluées la base des crues historiques de 2007, 2009 et 2017. Les résultats obtenus indiquent que les stratégies proposées par le modèle offrent de bien meilleures performances pour la réduction du débit de pointe et sur la diminution du niveau maximal de crue dans les secteurs aval. La méthodologie peut donc être transférée pour la gestion opérationnelle du bassin versant du Vu Gia Thu Bon
The main objective of the current research is to control flood flows and flood levels at various locations at the downstream of the Vu Gia Thu Bon catchment. Due to the characteristics of the system and the targeted optional objectives, a flood control operating strategy has been developed based on coupled simulation-optimization to reduce downstream flood damage of the multi-reservoir system by using spillway gates. The objective function is minimizing the total damages during the flood events that can be expressed as a function of water surface elevations at the inundation zones.The proposed method is based upon combining of three major components: (1) a hydraulic 1D model that allows simulating the flows in the river including the reservoir system, (2) an operation reservoir module adopted for simulation of the multi-reservoir considering physical constraints of the system as well as operation strategies, and (3) an optimization model applied to determine the best set of spillway gates levels, which specify the reservoir release.The method has been successfully implemented for the multi-reservoir system in the Vu Gia Thu Bon catchment. Three flood events in 2007, 2009 and 2017 were selected for demonstration. In order to assess performance of the approach and for comparison purpose, three developed scenarios that are representing operations the reservoir system in the historical, the current rules and the proposed model have been used. The results indicate that the proposed model provides much better performance for all scenarios in terms of reducing the peak flow as well as reducing the maximum water levels at downstream control points compared to the rest scenarios
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Books on the topic "Cruel optimism"

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Berlant, Lauren Gail. Cruel optimism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

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Berlant, Lauren Gail. Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011.

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Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822394716.

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Da Costa, Dia. A Hunger Called Theater. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040603.003.0007.

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Budhan Theater’s community-based politics and performance seems perfectly aligned with creative economy discourses, given the optimism with which the indigenous Chhara community embraces the possibility of transcending stigmatized histories of criminality through creative practices and livelihood opportunities. Yet, this chapter complicates this optimism by highlighting the complex affective structures—betrayal, sentimental optimism, cruel pessimism, and ordinary regard—that coconstitute Chhara history of criminality and activist performance. Combining transnational feminism, queer and affect theory, it challenges Lauren Berlant’s cruel optimism and argues that cruel pessimism better describes the affective structure of those compelled to pursue the (bad) good life even while living with colonial capitalism’s ongoing betrayals. Like the Chhara, such putative citizens are compelled to embrace citizenship through their pessimistic critique of its resounding failures.
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Nagasawa, Yujin. The Problem of Evil for Atheists. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821625.003.0007.

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This chapter contends that the problem of evil arises not only for theists but also for atheists. To demonstrate this, focus is placed on ‘the problem of systemic evil’, where this is the problem of accounting for the violent, cruel, and unfair system of natural selection, a system which guarantees pain and suffering for uncountably many sentient beings. Unlike the traditional problem of evil, which concentrates on specific events, the more challenging problem of systemic evil emphasizes that the entire biological system is evil. Despite the systemic nature of evil, both theists and atheists typically uphold ‘existential optimism’, the thesis that the world is overall a good place and that we should be grateful for our existence in it. The combination of systemic evil and existential optimism gives rise to the ‘existential problem of systemic evil’, and this is a problem that theists have greater resources in answering than do atheists.
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Shaw, Carolyn Martin. Flame, Nyaradzo, and Pretty. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039638.003.0003.

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This chapter examines three types of women that are central to the book's study of the promises of feminism in Zimbabwe: women combatants/veterans (“Flame”), feminist activists (“Nyaradzo”), and beauty and modeling contestants (“Pretty”). There are seven categories or classes in Zimbabwe, according to education, income, residence, occupation, ownership of property, and attitudes toward family and social change. Groups 3, 4, and 5 constitute the middle class—this is the group to which Flame, Nyaradzo, and Pretty belong. Each of these women wants more from her society, all are eclectic in their principles and goals, and at one time, they each had reason to hope. All resist the stasis of an overwhelming presentism that is an alternative to cruel optimism. The chapter also considers several paradoxes in assessing the effectiveness of women's movements in changing policies in African countries.
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van der Vlies, Andrew. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793762.003.0001.

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This chapter considers the representation of impasse in three novels by Ingrid Winterbach, widely fêted in South Africa as one of its leading Afrikaans-language writers: Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat (2006; The Book of Happenstance, 2008); Die benederyk (2010; The Road of Excess, 2014); Die aanspraak van lewende wesens (2012; It Might Get Loud, 2015). It discusses the forms of precarious life at issue in these texts, and tests the usefulness of work by Lauren Berlant (on the ‘cruel optimism’ of neoliberal social life; on the cultural forms—including the ‘situation tragedy’—that reflect it) and David Scott (on the tragic nature of post-utopian postcolonial politics) for reading it. This chapter introduces a key concern of the book, the intertextuality through which its writers participate in local and global conversations (here involving J.M. Coetzee and Don DeLillo).
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Shaw, Carolyn Martin. Sticks and Scones. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039638.003.0002.

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This chapter examines the Homecraft movement in colonial Zimbabwe and the ways it encouraged women to move beyond the confines of their homes, to join in common cause with non-kin, and to name their desires. Colonial white women who were members of the Federation of Women's Institutes of Southern Rhodesia (FWI) turned to political activism with the founding of Homecraft Clubs for black women. The FWI's systematization of knowledge about home economics was concomitant with the white women's heightened sense of Rhodesian nationalism. As white women taught domesticity and community service to black women, the latter began to assert themselves in the public sphere. The chapter also considers how events such as Kitchen Teas mobilize women's cultural knowledge about who should participate with whom on which occasions in order to bring women together for a celebratory event in honor of a bride. The chapter concludes by describing the decline of Homecraft and suggests that the movement was rife with cruel optimism.
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Shaw, Carolyn Martin. Reflections. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039638.003.0006.

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This book has investigated feminism's contribution to women's power/empowerment as well as conventional feminine powers in Zimbabwe. It has argued that feminism, the development of consciousness of sexism and the willingness to join with others to end discrimination against women, is not always quiet. Sometimes it is very much evident as in the liberation war or in street protests. At other times it is unobtrusive, as in women's inklings that something is wrong at work, without having the words to name that something. The book has also addressed cruel optimism as a promise of a future good life that is thwarted by the political economy, state spectacles of violence, and conventional attachments. This concluding chapter reflects on some of the important lessons that can be learned about middle-class women in Zimbabwe, and more specifically on the promises of freedom and feminism. It suggests that feminism stirs the promise of a better life, but the economy, politics, and society often do not conjoin to realize that promise.
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Book chapters on the topic "Cruel optimism"

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Fellner, Astrid M., and Susanne Hamscha. "“Solitary, Neglected, Despised”: Cruel Optimism and National Sentimentality." In Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, 157–70. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137543233_11.

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Zembylas, Michalinos, and André Keet. "Political Depression, Cruel Optimism and Pedagogies of Reparation." In Critical Human Rights Education, 77–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27198-5_6.

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McDermott, Catherine. "Genres of Impasse: Postfeminism as a Relation of Cruel Optimism in Girls." In Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls, 45–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52971-4_4.

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Rootham, Esther, and Linda McDowell. "Symbolic Violence and Cruel Optimism: Young Men, Un(der)employment, and the Honda Layoffs in Swindon." In Conflict, Violence and Peace, 409–24. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-038-4_14.

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Rootham, Esther, and Linda McDowell. "Symbolic Violence and Cruel Optimism: Young Men, Un(der)employment, and the Honda Layoffs in Swindon." In Conflict, Violence and Peace, 1–17. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-98-9_14-1.

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"Cruel Optimism." In Cruel Optimism, 23–49. Duke University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822394716-002.

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"CRUEL OPTIMISM." In Cruel Optimism, 23–50. Duke University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1220p4w.5.

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"Acknowledgments." In Cruel Optimism, vii—viii. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822394716-001.

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"Introduction: Affect in the Present." In Cruel Optimism, 1–22. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822394716-002.

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"One. Cruel Optimism." In Cruel Optimism, 23–50. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822394716-003.

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Conference papers on the topic "Cruel optimism"

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Belotti, Vittorio, Manjula U. Hemapala, Rinaldo C. Michelini, and Roberto P. Razzoli. "Robot Remote Control and Mine Sweeping." In ASME 2008 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2008-59397.

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Demining is calamity of third world countries. The clearing is ceaseless, more expensive than the spreading, and terrorist return is obtained by weakening of the antagonistic population. The mines are cheapest weapon, built to make horrible injuries, affecting active people, with major falls-off into economic growth. The disaster is notably cruel in Sri Lanka, with anti-person mines spread in the northeast region. After the ceasefire, the international organisations started the mine sweeping, with poor issues, due to politico-economical motivations in direct bond with wants in the technical effectiveness. The pitiable situation is worsened, as most rich lands are removed from farming exploitation, with increasing of the internally displaced persons. Now, clearing is engineering duty, and the humanitarian goal comes to be technical challenge. The advanced robotics fulfils clean and reliable tasks, on condition to upgrade sophistication and cost and to loose third-world appropriateness. The challenge is to turn local machines and awareness into effective robotic aids, willingly used by the local people, and to enhance the on-going outcomes. The analysis, mainly, addresses the following points: - the engaged technologies need to provide special purpose outfits and to involve operators having adapted uniformity; - the work-flow pre-setting ought to detail the duty-cycles and to establish the standard achievements; - the planning has to specify the on-process warning/emergency management and the failure protection rules; - the operators’ instruction and training shall aim at off-process optimised work-flows to circumvent risky issues; - the effectiveness comes from organised routine agendas, in conformity with allotted tasks and emergency events. This is a mix of organisational and technologic demands, calling for responsible commitment of the involved people, so that the local Civil Service is entitled to do the clearing operations, and the all engaged community is solidly concerned. The winning solution shall look at low-cost robotic outfits, to be obtained with resort to nearby available resources and competences (e.g., drawn on from the local agricultural machinery and know-how), and full account of the cost limits, while aiming at the process effectiveness by the mix of enabling cues, principally deferred to enhancing the regional awareness and the factual dedication. The paper stresses on fairly unorthodox robots, addressing unmanned effectors facilities joined with intelligent remote-command abilities, not as advanced achievements, rather as cheapest productivity upgrading, assembled from standard farming devices, through the shared know-how and commitment of locally involved operators.
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