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592 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2004)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0592 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE Collective Hope By VALERIE BRAITHWAITE 6 For social scientists, power and governance are big themes. Our ambition is to persuade that hope is too. Some may expect these issues to be addressed in this volume in a top-down fash- ion. We have not chosen this path. In a world racked by war, hunger, dislocation, and social upheaval, the contributors in this volume have opted for a bottom-up approach. If we can rec- ognize and understand hope in situ and commu- nicate our insights in intellectually challenging ways, perhaps we maybe able to entice others to do likewise; steadily pulling the pieces together from our learnings from culturally diverse set- tings to fully grasp, and respect, the process by which groups set out to mold different futures for themselves. In this volume, hope is aligned with reason (see especially John Cartwright; Philip Pettit) and action (see especially Sasha Courville and Nicola Piper) and has social roots that empower individuals and collectivities (see especially John Braithwaite; Valerie Braithwaite; Victoria McGeer; Clifford Shearing and Michael Kempa). Through parental and peer scaffold- ing (McGeer, this volume), we are taught the process of hope and learn its social etiquette- how to empower others through the gift of hope and how to empower ourselves through receiv- ing the hope that others offer. Like all social phe- nomena, hope can go very wrong (see especially Peter Drahos); although as our authors remind us, we do not need to look to the collective for blame on this count. Individual hope is no less certain in the goodness of its outcomes than is collective hope. But regardless of outcomes, hope we must. It remains the human beacon of engagement with the task of mapping our destinies. Valerie Braithwaite is a senior fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National Univer- sity, and is cnently the director of the Centre for Tax System Integrity, Regulatory Institutions Network. DOI: 10.1177/0002716203262049 ANNALS, AAPSS, 592, March 2004

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