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Contradiction and radical hope : exploring lived love

Vulliamy, Catherine

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Catherine Vulliamy



Abstract

In this article, I explore the contradictions, tensions and hopefulness of love. Participants in my research shared accounts of love that acknowledged the anguish, loss and pain of love in uneven political worlds marked by patriarchal power structures and heteronormative assumption. At the same time as confronting the difficulty of negotiating love in this context, the accounts continued to express a determined sense of hope about love. I employ a dialectical approach in order to apprehend the paradoxes and tensions inherent to the lived experience of love. As I investigate the meanings and implications of both the contradictions of love, and the hope in love’s potential to transform, I use Ruth Levitas’ concept of utopia as method to show how the ‘radical hope of love’ emerges directly from the contradictions of love as a means of imagining and creating new social worlds.

Citation

Vulliamy, C. (2016). Contradiction and radical hope : exploring lived love. LIR.journal, 7(16), 74-96

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 1, 2016
Publication Date 2016
Deposit Date Jun 24, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal LIR.journal
Print ISSN 2001-2489
Electronic ISSN 2001-2489
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 7
Issue 16
Pages 74-96
Keywords Love, Sexuality, Dialectics, Hope, Utopia
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/440249
Publisher URL http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/LIRJ/article/view/3621
Additional Information This is a description of an article accepted for publication in LIR.journal, 2016, v.7 issue 16.

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