Research Guides: NYU Reads: Theme 5: Hope and Change

Hope and Change

"You're an intelligent AF. Maybe you can see things the rest of us can't. Maybe you're right to be hopeful. Maybe you're right" (p. 108).

The book addresses hope. Art can be a mechanism to incite hope and discussions around hope. NYU and NYC is home to imaginative artists and cultural workers. NYU students also have free access to some NYC museums.

"After the Fire" Mural Project at the MOMA PS1 by Nanibah Chacon, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Layqa Nuna Yawar.

Articles

Building The Beloved Community: A Life Practice (PDF)
The author of this piece, Puanani Burgess, is a process designer and facilitator for Building the Beloved Community, a community-building and conflict transformation process based on bringing people face to face for ceremony, storytelling, and healing circles of trust and respect. Participants tell the story of their names, the story of their community, and the story of their gifts, and are able to see the beauty and humanity in themselves and each other.
The experience of hope in families of children and adolescents living with chronic illness: A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Hope is multidimensional, dynamic, and varies according to experienced events, cultural environments and stage of life. The qualitative synthesis of the experience of hope in the paediatric population with chronic conditions is scarce. To synthesize qualitative studies on the experience of hope in families of children and adolescents living with chronic illness.

Books

Envisioning global LGBT human rights : (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, resistance and hope by Nancy Nicol
ISBN: 0993110282
Publication Date: 2018
Hope and Courage in the Climate Crisis by John Wiseman
ISBN: 3030707431
Publication Date: 2021
Drawing on broad experience as a climate activist, researcher and policy maker John Wiseman provides a wide ranging, accessible and provocative guided tour of ideas which can inspire and sustain radical hope and defiant courage in the long emergency which now lies before us.
Making Space For Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope by Michele. Moody-Adams
ISBN: 0231554060
Publication Date: 2022
Michele Moody-Adams explores what social movements have shown about the nature of justice and what it takes to create space for justice in the world. She argues that these insights are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice-and should be transformative for political thought as well as for political activism.

Video

TedTalk on YouTube

16 minutes 5 seconds

In this TED Talk interview the founders of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi discuss the lessons they have learned from organizing with BLM and what gives them hope for the future of fight for Black lives.

Reflections on Intersections

What signs of hope and transformative change do you anticipate experiencing at NYU and in NYC?
What may hope look like for different communities in our world? What is the relationship between hope and social (including environmental) justice?