{"id":1724,"date":"2023-04-19T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2023-04-20T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:01:23","slug":"not-karin-lesnik-oberstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/not-karin-lesnik-oberstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Not &#8211; Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Not<\/h2>\n<p>Everyone is sure that imagination will save our world. It has not.<br \/>\nIf anything has not saved our world, it is imagination. It has not.<br \/>\nThe dreaming and the hoping have not saved the world. They have not.<br \/>\nThe optimism which we are adjured repeatedly to uphold has not saved the world. It has not.<br \/>\nWe must imagine and re-imagine and this, we are told, is for sure. But it is not.<br \/>\nWhat is this (re-)imagining of which everyone is so certain and in which they have so much faith? I do not.<br \/>\nStop imagining: somebody, everybody, do something. But we will not.<br \/>\nWe must, instead, we will be told, I will be told, (re-)imagine. Not.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/english-literature\/our-staff\/karin-lesnik-oberstein\"><strong>Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein<\/strong><\/a> is Professor of Critical Theory and Director of the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL) and its M(Res.) in Children\u2019s Literature in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein urges the world to stop hoping and start taking action for the climate in her poem &#8216;Not&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195],"coauthors":[137],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-earth-day-2023"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Not - Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein - Engagement and Impact<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein urges the world to stop hoping and start taking action for the climate in her poem &#039;Not&#039;.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/not-karin-lesnik-oberstein\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not - Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein - Engagement and Impact\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein urges the world to stop hoping and start taking action for the climate in her poem &#039;Not&#039;.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/not-karin-lesnik-oberstein\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Engagement and Impact\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-19T15:46:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-20T12:01:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2023\/04\/Earth-from-space-NASA-CC-BY-2.0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"349\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alex Daykin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alex Daykin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/not-karin-lesnik-oberstein\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/not-karin-lesnik-oberstein\/\",\"name\":\"Not - Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein - Engagement and Impact\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-19T15:46:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-20T12:01:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/#\/schema\/person\/532e1ce773445fb76d77785ea76f5be8\"},\"description\":\"Kar\u00edn Lesnik-Oberstein urges the world to stop hoping and start taking action for the climate in her poem 'Not'.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/not-karin-lesnik-oberstein\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/not-karin-lesnik-oberstein\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/not-karin-lesnik-oberstein\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Not &#8211; 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