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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