Event Title
Imagining More: Investigating Hope and Possibility
Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
1-5-2014 2:00 PM
End Date
1-5-2014 4:00 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
This project is spurred by the experience of growing up in a self-described state of political depression, disbelieving that real change was feasible. In the spirit of the memoir on depression by Ann Cvetkovich, this research brings a socio-cultural analysis to the topic of depression and how it operates as a public feeling. By engaging with historical moments, such as the activism triggered by the AIDS epidemic, the author hopes to understand why a fuller range of activism is understood as existing in the past and not the present. The personal and political are inextricably linked in this research and in the final analysis it hopes to resolve and inspire a personal belief in what is politically imaginable.
Faculty Sponsor
Martha Arterberry
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Psychology Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
630
Imagining More: Investigating Hope and Possibility
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
This project is spurred by the experience of growing up in a self-described state of political depression, disbelieving that real change was feasible. In the spirit of the memoir on depression by Ann Cvetkovich, this research brings a socio-cultural analysis to the topic of depression and how it operates as a public feeling. By engaging with historical moments, such as the activism triggered by the AIDS epidemic, the author hopes to understand why a fuller range of activism is understood as existing in the past and not the present. The personal and political are inextricably linked in this research and in the final analysis it hopes to resolve and inspire a personal belief in what is politically imaginable.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/112