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This chapter reviews the various effects and consequences of the cultural politics of caring as instantiated in education advertisements as well as in the caring practices of teachers. This chapter theorises the affective economy based on the technologies of vulnerability and triumphalism as wayang-overaction, a localised intercultural reference point. It then makes a case for a more critical care of self for navigation within the cultural politics of caring. This chapter concludes by envisioning alternative affective based on hope where the very discourse of survivalism could serve as a catalyst for transformation.
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Pereira, A.J. (2019). Critical Conceptions of Hope and Aspiration: Hopeful Recommendations. In: Affective Governmentality. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, vol 9. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7807-2_6
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