Introduction: Dark Hope in the Anthropocene Valerie Waldow (Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg), Pol Bargués (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) and David Chandler (University of Westminster) Part One: Agency Chapter 2 The Anthropocene and the Unseen: Speculative, Pragmatic and Nihilist Hope David Chandler (University of Westminster) Chapter 3 A Hope against Hope: Scandal, Cynicism and Critique in the Wake of the Covid-19 polycrisis Chris Zebrowski (Loughborough University) Chapter 4 Working for 'Minor Utopias': Youth Employment in Sierra Leone and Liberia Sukanya Podder and Raul Zepeda Gil (King's College London) Chapter 5 Visualising Hope in the Radical Data Work of W. E. B. Du Bois Kiran K Phull (King's College London) Chapter 6 A Feminist Ethic of Care for Orienting Utopia in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Christie Nicoson (Lund University) Part Two: Governance Chapter 7 Enduring Hopelessness: Governance without Horizon in Pandemic Times Nicolas Gäckle (University of Groningen) Chapter 8 Securing the Hopeful Subject? The Militarisation of Complexity Science and the Limits of Decolonial Critique Claes Tängh Wrangel (Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, Uppsala University) Chapter 9 The Hope-Colonialism Nexus Marjo Lindroth (University of Lapland) and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen (University of Lapland) Chapter 10 Hopeful Times, Black Futures, and Things Quantum Technologies Tell about International Institutions Geoff Gordon (Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam) Chapter 11 In the Breaches of Cancelled Futures: The Entropies of Modernisation and Ecological Recomposition Renan Porto (University of Westminster) Part Three: Negation Chapter 12 Hope and the End of Critique? Crisis and Affirmation in the Anthropocene Valerie Waldow (Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg) Chapter 13 Hope in a World that will Never End? The Problem of Fanatical Hope in Critical Dystopias Aristidis V. Agoglossakis Foley (University of St Andrews) Chapter 14 Hope Makes Strange: Affect, Hope, and Strangeness Srishti Malaviya (O.P. Jindal Global University) Chapter 15 Reimagining Hopeful Anthropocene Futures: From Entanglements to Radical Openness Ignasi Torrent (University of Herefordshire) Chapter 16 Hope As a Theopolitical Virtue: Eschatology and End of Time Politics Vassilios Paipais (University of St Andrews) Hope: An Epilogue Fleur Johns (University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney).