ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with John Holloway's remark that hope goes out of lives and thoughts. Holloway insists that the starting point is 'scream'. For a vulnerable body caught in a tangled mess, only a scream provides the initial impetus to reject reality. Nevertheless, again, academic study dismisses this power of the scream. More seriously, Holloway warns that academic discourses discourage us from expressing it, because scholars treat the 'scream' as the object of analysis rather than the subject of political quest. The researchers are only interested in 'why' 'they' scream. Such impersonal agency challenges the territorial notion of conventional political theory, such as creation of stable order, recognition of identity, rights of ownership or power of mastery. Post-disaster politics rejects the temptation for absolute territorialisation and proposes non-hegemonic knowledge. This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book.
