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Amid the clouds of unpredictable change, there always seems to be a sliver of light - of hope - on the horizon. However, in Chandler's estimation, the fundamental insight to be gained in the Anthropocene is that ours is a world without the privilege of hope. Hope (seemingly) provides opportunities and encourages action even though the (un)intended result may be a harsher constraint, as the articles of Guerrieri, Ottendörfer and Chandler note. As he demonstrates, the historical and philosophical perspective of hope as a desire for "alternative possible outcomes" (Chandler, [4]) lives on in the Anthropocene. [Extracted from the article]

Indigenous peoples and indigenous lives have historically been the targets of colonial practices. In current politics, the brutal actions these entailed have changed into more subtle forms of governing. Drawing on the context of international politics (the Arctic Council and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues), we argue that the demand/need for adaptation is one of the rationalities by which power is exercised over indigenous peoples and indigeneity today. We view this as a form of biopower that fosters and steers indigenous life. The paper highlights three concurrent and overlapping strands of the vocabulary of adaptation: a call for agency, a sustaining of authenticity and a politics of placation. Together, these signal what the adaptive indigenous subject should be like, an unceasing demand for adaptation that is subtler but no less colonial than exercises of power past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]