Resumen de Hope, communication, and communitty building
Hope is a form of discursive practice that involves cocreating discourse with others that generates new images of possibility for social arrangements and mobilizes the moral and affective resources neccesary to translate image into action and belief while balancing creativity and constaint. I adopt Craig's (1989; Craig & Tracy, 1995) notion of practical theory and use it to explore the practice of creating positive communication frameworks for fostering hope in communicaty-building efforts. In this study, I analize the practice of Imagine Chicago, an internationally known community-building organization that emphasizes hope as a core element in its approach, using the lenses of affirmative dialogical and pragmatic theory. The analisis suggests cocreating textured vocabularies of hope requires community builders to develop (a) affirmative, (b) relational, (c) generative, and (d) imaginative situated sensibilities when developing positive communication frameworks
