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Time, Memory, and the Politics of Contingency (Paperback)
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Time, Memory, and the Politics of Contingency (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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In recent years, there has been an increased attention to
temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely
needed. For too long political theory, with the exception of
occasional phenomenological forays, has remained grounded in a
particular experience of time as linear and sequential. This book
aims to unsettle the dominant framework by putting time itself, and
the experience of time in everyday life, at the center of its
critical analysis. Smita Rahman focuses on the experience of time
as one where past, present, and future intermingle with each other
and refuse to adhere to a sequential structure. Rather than trying
to tame the flux of time, this book places this "out of joint"
experience of time at the center of its analysis of global
politics. Rahman takes the highly abstract concept of time and
decenters it to speak to a wide range of political issues across
disciplines. She does so by exposing the cultural construction of
the foundational concept of time in political theory and attending
closely to the challenges of cultural incommensurability that it
encounters in a globalized world of difference. Specifically, the
book looks at interrogation practices in Afghanistan, the
challenges of coping with the burdens of collective memory in
Algeria, South Africa, and Rwanda, the difficulty of uncritically
applying such a framework to the Muslim world through the language
of secularism, and finally at the beginnings of democratic
emergence in Bangladesh to explore a politics of contingency. By
focusing on issues of contemporary global politics through the lens
of political theory, this book draws on literature across
disciplines and explores the complex image of time by engaging the
work of thinkers for whom time and memory have emerged as a
critical issue of analysis, and unpacking the politics of
contingency that emerge from such a reading. The book's new
insights on political temporality will interest scholars of
contemporary political theory, comparative political theory,
critical theory, human rights, conflict studies, and religion and
politics.
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