Georgina Johnson - The Slow Grind: Practising Hope and Imagination

208 pages
Edited by Georgina Johnson, with Lorén Elhili and Celeste Hay
Text(s) by Adrienne Maree Brown, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Alfonso Cesanz, Amirah Mitchell, Bel Jacobs, Claire Ratinon, Emii Alrai, Fariha Róisín, Jasleen Kaur, Kalpana Arias, Lucia Pietroiusti, Kostas Stasinopoulos, Martha Dillon, Martin Raymond, Moza Almatrooshi, Renuka Ramanujam, Samaneh Moafi, Simon Whitehouse, Sophia Li, Willow Defebaugh and Zeba Blay
Foreword by Francesca Gavin
Designed by Toni Hollowood
21.9 x 15.5 cm 
Language: English
Paperback
Publisher: The Laundry Arts
First edition
2023

The Slow Grind: Practicing Hope and Imagination follows the thread of dreaming, worldmapping and future-thinking that The Slow Grind: Finding Our Way Back to Creative Balance ,the inaugural book published in 2020, spearheaded.

This time, we engage in the project of relearning the importance of hope and imagination. Presenting visions that assert these as principles that require the re-enchanting of our minds and the lighting of a kinetic force within our molecular bodies. This book focuses on radical ecology, the power of art as a memory keeper, and the poetics of creativity as a necessary antidote to the fear and anxiety we are all feeling in the face of multiple crises.

Key to this is a belief that holding hope for our ecology starts with holding hope for ourselves and one another. Filled with the insight of more than 20 thinkers, activists and futurists spanning the globe, the perspectives held within the architecture of this book are concerned with encouraging the development of a planetary consciousness that is informed by hopeful criticality and urgency.