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Oct 16, 2023 · To scrutinize the nexus between time and politics and to make the analysis of chronopolitics manageable, we propose to differentiate between the politics of time, the time of politics, and politicized time.
Feb 4, 2020 · This study advances the literature by examining the relationship between political ideology and spatial representation of time in the Chinese population. This finding fits nicely with the TFH that reveals the link between temporal focus and implicit space-time mappings.
- Heng Li, Yu Cao
- 2020
Mar 7, 2017 · Politics and Time contributes to the bourgeoning literature on the politics of time and the event. Whilst the subject of “time” can be traced through a history of ideas, Michael Shapiro’s contribution is unique in bringing together a number of political philosophers to consider how different conceptions of time inform and challenge the ...
- Bethany Cuffe-Fuller
- byc201@exeter.ac.uk
- 2017
Oct 16, 2023 · Time is so deeply interwoven with all aspects of politics that its centrality to the political is frequently overlooked. For one, politics has its own times and rhythms. Secondly, time can be an object and an instrument of politics.
- Myopia
- A Plea For Time
- Rethinking Democracy
- A New Chronopolitics?
- A Democracy of Many Rhythms?
If people’s lived sense of time is variable, then an obvious question is: what does the way of life known as democracy, popular self-government, do to peoples’ sense of time? The commonplace view is that democracy is myopic. Buoyed by the sense that the past is over and the future is not yet, democracy encourages a fixation on the here and now. “De...
The scathing assessment of democracy by the influential Canadian scholar Harold Innis (1894-1952) runs in a similar direction. Renowned for his avant-garde research and writing on space, time and communications, Innis crafted a remarkable essay on the subject of time during the darkest moments of the 1940s. Later delivered within a series of sesqui...
A strange feature of Innis’s dark summary of the fate of democracy in dark times was its silence about the robust discussions of the future of democracy that erupted globally during the decade of the 1940s. I’ve explained in these field notesthat the new ideal of monitory democracy was born of this period, at a moment of profound crisis of majority...
Proof positive of democracy’s strengthening of a public sense among citizens of the “unreality” of temporal “reality” is to be found in perhaps the most remarkable development of all. It was unforeseen by Innis: the birth of what the American sociologist George W. Wallisfirst called “chronopolitics” and, with it, challenges to clock time and the mu...
Can we make good sense of these disparate and often contradictory trends? What is their significance for the way we think about time, and about politics? Might the new chronopolitics have long-term implications for the way people imagine and practise democracy as a way of life committed to equality with freedom for all? Let’s return for a moment to...
Mar 20, 2018 · Amid a growing literature, we can discern three primary ways that time matters for international-relations theory. 1 First, mainstream scholars treat time as a natural and neutral dimension in which international politics occurs (Gaddis 1992, 38).
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This conference brought together scholars working on the interrelationship between time and politics, temporality, and historiography in order to systematize debates on chronopolitics and to connect theoretical work on temporalities with traditional historical research.
