[{"key":"dc.contributor.author","value":"Droguett, Enrique","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.accessioned","value":"2026-03-20T02:22:47Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.available","value":"2026-03-20T08:02:16Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.issued","value":"2026","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/93805","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.abstract","value":"This thesis argues that resignation, as an affective experience, operates as a structural and political condition in late modern societies, produced by capitalism\u2019s systematic erosion of the common world that sustains plurality and action, rather than as a merely psychological state. Resignation manifests in contemporary phenomena such as declining birth rates, educational disillusionment, political withdrawal, and social isolation, understood here as interconnected expressions of a broader closure of the future and a retreat from the spaces of community building rather than as discrete or isolated symptoms. Far from constituting a passive or neutral response, resignation is shown to be both an effect of neoliberal capitalism and a condition that reinforces it, rendering subjects vulnerable to authoritarian tendencies and the hollowing out of democratic life. Drawing on Hannah Arendt\u2019s The Human Condition, the thesis reframes resignation as a crisis of worldlessness rather than as individual pathology, challenging psychologized, individualistic accounts of contemporary despair. Although resignation appears pervasive and structurally entrenched, the concept of natality designates a fragile and uncertain possibility of interruption: an opening through which action may reappear and a common world may be provisionally reconstituted under conditions of profound political exhaustion and hopelessness.","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.language.iso","value":"eng","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.publisher","value":"University of British Columbia","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.rights","value":"Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International","language":"*"},{"key":"dc.rights.uri","value":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/","language":"*"},{"key":"dc.title","value":"Futures foreclosed : resignation as the affective condition of late capitalism","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type","value":"Text","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.name","value":"Master of Arts - MA","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.discipline","value":"Human Development, Learning, and Culture","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.grantor","value":"University of British Columbia","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.contributor.supervisor","value":"Weber, Barbara, 1976-","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.graduation","value":"2026-05","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type.text","value":"Thesis\/Dissertation","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Education, Faculty of","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.campus","value":"UBCV","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.scholarlevel","value":"Graduate","language":"en"}]