Have you wondered what happened to the equal and just futures we were told we could look forward to, if only we followed the rules and were ‘reasonable’?  

Written as a testimony to spectacular and insidious forms of state violence and supremacist ideologies, What to do with Political Sadness evidences destruction and death as the principal instruments which define the horizon of power. 

Combining political philosophy and social critique, Ghazala Jamil seeks to recount and contribute to ideas that compensate for our dimmed capacity to locate ourselves in globally intertwined histories and layered geographies. A collection of engaging essays on themes such as death, violence, and the evisceration of futures, this is Jamil’s refusal to accept that sadness induced by juridical, economic and political devastation is pathological.