Cretney, Raven2023-06-062018-09-302019-030066-4812HK9FV (isidoc)https://hdl.handle.net/10182/16184Recent awareness of the role of neoliberalism in fostering tactics of de-politicisation has cultivated recognition of a narrowing of democratic possibilities. Disaster, as a time of disruption can provoke a heightened awareness of dynamics of power and contestation. This provides a fertile ground to understand the possibility for de-politicisation alongside that of resistance and hope. This paper weaves together and contextualises these ideas within a case study of community-led disaster recovery in the city of Ōtautahi Christchurch in Aotearoa New Zealand following a series of devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. In exploring the entangled relationship between crisis and hope I discuss how forms of de-politicisation can emerge in the disaster context as well as the resistance that also emerges at the grassroots and everyday scale. I emphasise the need to see post politics as present-yet-incomplete alongside the potential for participatory and radical forms of social change at the grassroots scale.pp.497-516en© 2018 The Author. Antipode © 2018 Antipode Foundation Ltd.de-politicisationdisaster politicsdisaster recoveryhopepolitics of possibilitypost politicsJournal Article10.1111/anti.124311467-83302023-06-06ANZSRC::4404 Development studiesANZSRC::4406 Human geography