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Cover -- Copyright Notice -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Arresting Hope -- An Invitation to Readers -- Before Prison -- Arrival -- Daily Life -- Recreation Therapy -- Babies in Prison -- Participatory Health Research -- Community -- Indigenous Learning -- Stories of Transformation.

This article outlines a number of steps toward a more sensitive and affirmative conception of childhood and hope ("childhood-hope"). Throughout the article, the author explores how our understandings of hope might be extended via an examination of childhood-hope. First, it considers childhood as a universalizing, affective condition, which can be characterized by very simplistic, and problematic, notions of hope, logic, and futurity. The author connects this line of thought explicitly with what the author identifies as impulses of hopefulness and of "doing good" for children, exemplified by a selection of "high-profile" quotations about children. Second, the author extends the discussion to explore everyday articulations of hope by young people involved in a project concerning their interpretations and experiences of self-esteem. The author concludes by outlining how universal representations of childhood-hope may be extended and critiqued though young people's own articulations of hope, and draw attention to some of the positive political interventions that young people's modest forms of hoping might have.

With its ascendancy in American political discourse during the past few years, hope has become a watchword of politics, yet the rhetoric has failed to inquire into the actual function of hope in political life. This essay examines elpis, the Greek word for "hope," in Thucydides' History and offers a theoretical account of this concept and its connection to successful political action. I suggest that a complex understanding of hope structures Thucydides' narrative: Hope counts as among the most dangerous political delusions, yet it also offers the only possible response to despair. Thucydides' text educates the judgment of his readers, chastening hope while showing its importance despite its flaws. The History thus offers an alternative for considering the politics of hope, one that challenges hope's ardent proponents today. Adapted from the source document.