Cruel Optimism

Objects, Agency, and Collaboration

Sullivan, H. T. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-09585-6_8

An Auto/ethnographic Story of Working Through Method/ology

Pluquailec, J. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-09274-9_4

Individualization and Community Converge: The Gym as Facilitator of the Spornosexual Ideal

Rothmann, J. (2022) · Palgrave studies in masculinity, sport and exercise · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15440-9_4

Introducing the Hardcore Masculine Ideal: The Spornosexual Star

Rothmann, J. (2022) · Palgrave studies in masculinity, sport and exercise · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15440-9_1

Inclusive and Orthodox Masculinities: Multiplicity Versus Reification

Rothmann, J. (2022) · Palgrave studies in masculinity, sport and exercise · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15440-9_3

Sharing Spornosexual Imagery: Mediating the Sporno Ideal Through Gym Work

Rothmann, J. (2022) · Palgrave studies in masculinity, sport and exercise · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15440-9_7

Das Dilemma des Kreativen

Kolesch, D. (2023) · Abhandlungen zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft · doi:10.1007/978-3-662-65196-4_9

Cruel Optimism in the Slow Violence of Apocalypse

Messimer, M. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-29920-9_3

Introduction

Messimer, M. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-29920-9_1

Invisibility in global health: A case for disturbing bioethical frameworks

Alenichev, A., Suwalowska, H., Faure, M. C., et al. (2023) · Wellcome Open Research · doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19346.1

“What’s Getting Us Through”: Grazia UK as Affective Intimate Public During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Findlay, R. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-19100-8_17

Review of Zoe Hurley (2023). Social Media Influencing in The City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition

Hopkyns, S. (2023) · Postdigital Science and Education · doi:10.1007/s42438-023-00405-9

Organising the “Labour of Hope”: A Critical Take on the Role of Internships and Mentorships in Supporting Highly Skilled Immigrants into Jobs

Diedrich, A., & Risberg, A. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26821-2_11

Gender.Macht.Wissenschaft – Akademischer Aktivismus. Ein Bericht über aktivistische Schreib- und Arbeitsprozesse

Gender.Macht.Wissenschaft, A. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-40467-3_14

Feministische Kommunikations- und Medienforschung: Rückblick – Ausblick

Dorer, J., Geiger, B., Hipfl, B., et al. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-20707-6_80

Dangers of Postwar Satiety in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952)

Usiekniewicz, M. (2023) · Crime files · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-29160-9_6

Introduction: Body, Feeling, Community, and Cognition

Hautsch, J. (2023) · Palgrave fan studies · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32450-5_1

A Reflection on Doctoral Supervision as the Co-production of Differential Space

Smith, R. M. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36801-1_5

Intersectionality in Feminist Hashtags and Democracy: How the Black Women’s Day in Brazil Mobilizes Specificities within the Feminist Movement

de Oliveira, B. S., & Orlandini, M. G. (2023) · Palgrave studies in communication for social change · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-31621-0_6

Facing and Overcoming Pain Through Scientific Evidence: The Imperative of Exposure as a Psychological Technique for Cognitive Behavioral Treatments in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mónaco, R. D. (2023) · Culture Medicine and Psychiatry · doi:10.1007/s11013-023-09828-2

Protest-Selbstmord dekolonisieren: Performing Life in Hongkong

Manzoor, N., & Wen, L. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-19-5990-5_5

How We Use Social Theory: Common Threads and Concluding Thoughts

Bell, A. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-39817-9_22

Epistemological Stagflation and the Crisis of Democracy in Contemporary Music Research

Valiquet, P. (2023) · Ästhetiken X.0 · doi:10.1007/978-3-662-67131-3_5

Belly of the World: Toxicity, Innocence, and Indigestibility in Plastic China

Ng, E. (2023) · Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24243-4_2

Introduction: Beyond Borders—Inclusion and Exclusion in American Culture

Guerrero, P. B., & Jiménez, M. F. (2023) · American literature readings in the 21st century · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30179-7_1

Is There a Life After the 25th of January?

Nagaty, S. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-35013-9_5

Conceptual Framework

Nagaty, S. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-35013-9_1

Conclusion

Nagaty, S. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-35013-9_6

Attunement: “My Sweat is Sown into the Rocks”

Nagaty, S. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-35013-9_2

CrossFit and Survivalism

Edmonds, S. E. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-99-6311-9_3

CrossFit’s Healthist Discourse and the Obesity Risk

Edmonds, S. E. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-99-6311-9_2

Limbo: Precarious Livelihoods, Teaching and Research

Bonello, K., & Wånggren, L. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-42655-1_3

The Study: Working Conditions in a Marketised University System

Giappone, K. B. R., & Wånggren, L. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-42655-1_2

Work—Rarely a Feast, Mostly a Famine

King, B. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15798-1_6

Maskulinistische Identitätspolitik

Sauer, B. (2024) · MiGS: Migration - Gesellschaft - Schule · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-42390-2_6

Learning Sites: Tensions and Productive Possibilities

Walsh, L., & Black, R. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_95-1

Seeing in Verticality: From ‘Vertical Gaze’ to ‘Figuring Out’

Brighenti, A. M., & Pavoni, A. (2023) · Social visualities · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-39884-1_4

Bashes as Spaces for Healing Everyday Trauma of Fatphobia

Kotow, C. (2024) · Palgrave studies in mediating kinship, representation, and difference. · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-54453-8_5

Setting the Stage: Ways of Knowing and Seeing Fat

Kotow, C. (2024) · Palgrave studies in mediating kinship, representation, and difference. · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-54453-8_2

Globally Circulating Educational Concepts and Multiplicities of Contexts in India and Africa: A Relational Perspective on the Educational Sector

Clemens, I. (2024) · Africa’s global engagement · doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0696-9_2

Remaindered Commons: Notes Toward Post-socialist Futures in China vis-à-vis the Black Outdoors

Tian, I. L. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-99-9761-9_5

Dolor de Patria

Grunow, H. (2024) · Memory politics and transitional justice · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-50935-3_3

Colonial Nostalgia and Postcolonial Longings

Chow, Y. F., de Kloet, J., & Schmidt, L. (2024) · Contemporary East Asian visual cultures, societies and politics · doi:10.1007/978-981-99-6710-0_2

Caring for/with Modernist Playthings: Fidgeting with Objects in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie

Krishna, I. (2024) · Journal of Medical Humanities · doi:10.1007/s10912-024-09848-y

Conclusion

Udalagama, T. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-55412-4_8

Choosing Cruel Optimism: What Relational Ethics Offers “Equitable” Mathematics Education

Chen, G. A. (2024) · Advances in mathematics education · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-58683-5_16 · Cited by 1

Review of the Book Leisure, Activism, and the Animation of the Urban Environment, by I. R. Lamond, B. Lashua, & C. Reid (Eds.)

Alexander, R. (2024) · International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure · doi:10.1007/s41978-024-00158-0

From brain “scar” to “bat shit crazy”: negotiating the madness of sexual violence discourse

Yapp, E. (2024) · BioSocieties · doi:10.1057/s41292-024-00334-1

Widening Understanding of Attachment, Trauma and the Impact of Covid

Parker, R. (2024) · Palgrave studies in alternative education · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-59208-9_4

Pacing Time and Treading Water: Music, Rhythms of Endurance, and Activist Affordances

Ugolotti, N. D. M. (2024) · Leisure studies in a global era. · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-55198-7_5

Social Mobility and Inequalities

Vaid, D., & Datta, A. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-97417-6_9-1

Taking Care of Time! Four Facets of Enduring Time Among Three Generations During a Global Crisis

Østergaard, J., Henze‐Pedersen, S., & Thomson, R. (2024) · Frontiers in sociology and social research · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-54442-2_3

The Essentials: When Destabilizing Affects Become Representative

Yıldırım, M. E. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-66735-0_4

Social Mobility and Inequalities

Vaid, D., & Datta, A. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-97417-6_9-2

Hope and ‘Maybeness’

Williams, C. (2024) · Creative working lives · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64206-7_5

Student Mobilities: An Introduction

Brooks, R., & Waters, J. L. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-99-8606-4_107

Learning Sites: Tensions and Productive Possibilities

Walsh, L., & Black, R. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-99-8606-4_95

Welche Zukunft? Radikale Demokratiebildungen* in der Postapokalypse

Friedrichs, W. (2024) · Politische Bildungen · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-45211-7_5

Politische Bildung und Zukunft im 3. Jahrtausend

Friedrichs, W. (2024) · Politische Bildungen · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-45211-7_1

Gestural Communities

Giusti, F. (2024) · Cultural inquiry · doi:10.37050/ci-30_03

Dying and Exacting Revenge “On the Plane of Psychic Action”: From the Student’s Humiliation to the Teacher’s Death

Lewkowich, D. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-67043-5_2

Between Earth and Sky: Queering and Querying the Subject of Sex from the Margins

Sumathy, S. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-19-9265-0_28-1

“What Harm Can There Be in a Little Fresh Air, Sir?”: Reintroducing Circulation to Early-Eighteenth-Century Drama

Renen, D. V. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-71243-2_4

Introduction

Woock, E. A. (2024) · Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-66493-9_1

Social Mobility and Inequalities

Vaid, D., & Datta, A. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32152-8_9

Diasporic strategizing: Punjabi Sikh immigrant navigations of labor and citizenship within contemporary U.S. racial capitalism

Bal, H. (2024) · Dialectical Anthropology · doi:10.1007/s10624-024-09749-5

Religion and Social Welfare: New Critical Perspectives

Williams, A. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64811-3_43

The Hopeful Possibility of Postsecularity

Williams, A., Sutherland, C., & CLOKE, P. J. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64811-3_7

Theo-ethics

Gao, Q. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64811-3_41

Gender equality truth of transgenders community: psychological, religious and optimistic resilience nexus among transgenders in Punjab, Pakistan

Ahmad, M. S. (2024) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-024-07079-x · Cited by 1

Held Together: Learning Attachment from Oysters

Hayes, M. (2024) · Palgrave studies in animals and literature · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-69910-8_6

The Memoir-Activism Circuit: The Afterlives of Guantánamo Diary in Cultural Memory

Kennedy, R. (2025) · Palgrave Macmillan memory studies · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-73450-2_2

Can the Monster Speak? Ventriloquism and Voice in Trans Activist Life Writing

Poletti, A. (2025) · Palgrave Macmillan memory studies · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-73450-2_3

Post-Fordist Passionate Work Ethics: Affective Economy of Flexibility and Precarity

Atmaca, M. Ç. (2025) · Las Torres de Lucca International Journal of Political Philosophy · doi:10.5209/ltdl.96006

Agnès Varda’s Ethics and Strategies

Piotrowska, A. (2024) · Subjectivity · doi:10.1057/s41286-024-00205-x

Between Earth and Sky: Queering and Querying the Subject of Sex from the Margins

Sumathy, S. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-97-2098-9_28

Arbitrage

Egliston, B. (2024) · Palgrave games in context · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-73446-5_4

Religious Confrontations with (Secular) Affects

Avramopoulou, E. (2024) · Thinking gender in transnational times · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-83195-9_4

Epilogue | On Dreams (Before and After the Gezi Protests): The Right to a Liveable Death

Avramopoulou, E. (2024) · Thinking gender in transnational times · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-83195-9_7

Feminist Grammars and (Lost) Hopes

Avramopoulou, E. (2024) · Thinking gender in transnational times · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-83195-9_3

Competing crises of reproduction: Iraqi Yezidi refugee marriage decisions in Germany

Stuewe, A. T. (2025) · Dialectical Anthropology · doi:10.1007/s10624-025-09767-x

Feeling Restricted

Gobby, B., & Variyan, G. (2025) · Palgrave Critical Perspectives on Schooling, Teachers and Teaching. · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-82259-9_10

Endemic Zombies: Endlings and Embracing Extinction

Collier-Jarvis, K. (2025) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24734-7_75-1

Conclusion

Wu, H. (2025) · Palgrave studies in mediating kinship, representation, and difference. · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-83742-5_6

Virtuous Bitterness and Voluntary Inferiority: The Mediated Struggle of the Rural Elderly

Wu, H. (2025) · Palgrave studies in mediating kinship, representation, and difference. · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-83742-5_3

Einleitung

Peter, C., Strotmann, M., & von Stetten, M. (2025) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-45775-4_1

Mediating Maternity: Laughter and Mom Humor on Social Media

Rowley, R. N. (2025) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-73671-1_5 · Cited by 1

Introduction

Mikić, M. (2025) · American literature readings in the 21st century · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-85795-9_1 · Cited by 1

Learning Affectively: A Socio-material Analysis of a College Microbiology Laboratory

Halwany, S. E., & Bencze, L. (2025) · Contemporary trends and issues in science education · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-83837-8_13

Sensing Catastrophic Realities in Diasporic Puerto Rican Theater

Bailon, M. (2025) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-85791-1_10

The Problem of Men

Pease, B. (2025) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-91477-5_1

Tender Hope: Navigating Through the Ecopolitical Crisis of the Body

Szafranowska, K. (2025) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-84980-0_15

Geographies of Emergency and Exception

Grove, K. J., & O’Grady, N. (2025) · doi:10.1093/obo/9780199874002-0291

‘Generating electricity with love’: spontaneity, decentralization, and loose solidarity of queer youth community in contemporary China

Wang, H., Yang, Z., Hu, W., & Hu, X. (2026) · Social movement studies · doi:10.1080/14742837.2026.2616460

“I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all”: women’s responses to TikTok’s “aged” filter

Solomatina, I. (2026) · Feminist Media Studies · doi:10.1080/14680777.2026.2637157

The dictator of ressentiment : the everyday life of János Kádár

Majtényi, G. (2026) · Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe · doi:10.1080/25739638.2026.2650673

Sociocentric and Cosmocentric Coping: Cultural Logics of Parenting During Crisis in Low-Resource Indian Families

Maganti, M., Baxi, A., Lidhoo, A., Battiwala, T. P., Kolte, A., Rijuta, V., & Chatterjee, R. M. (2026) · Human Arenas · doi:10.1007/s42087-026-00633-y

Toward a Compost Literature in Mexican-American Border Narratives

Nelson, M. (2026) · English Language Notes · doi:10.1215/00138282-12301814

DETERMINING QUALITY REQUIREMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITIES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION

Mustafa, N. H., Kelesbayev, D., & Alibekova, Z. D. (2018) · The Journal of Economic Research & Business Administration · doi:10.26577/be-2018-2-2141

Susquehanna Chorale Spring Concert "Roots and Wings"

Hawkins, D. (2017)

Is Optimism Always Best?

Sweeny, K. M., Carroll, P. J., & Shepperd, J. A. (2006) · Current Directions in Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00457.x · Cited by 194

Women, information technology and ‘waves of optimism’: Australian evidence on ‘mixed‐skill’ jobs

Roan, A., & Whitehouse, G. (2007) · New Technology Work and Employment · doi:10.1111/j.1468-005x.2007.00181.x · Cited by 38

REVIEW BOOK - PPO-R Guide : Youth Optimism Development Programme GuidePreprint

Fanani, M. Z. (2021) · doi:10.31219/osf.io/nct28