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Sustainability is a matter of time. While this observation has become a topos in discussions on sustainability, its analytical implications and political consequences are rarely reflected. This article explores the relationship between time and sustainability by asking how time and temporality both challenge and shape sustainability in public policy. A three-dimensional view of sustainability is developed, based on the idea of temporal modalities, stylized configurations of how we make sense of time. Temporal horizons, temporal schemes, process-time, and temporal concepts are interwoven in social action and communication. In practices of policymaking in time, by time, and of time, these elements are combined, become institutionalized, and are reinterpreted and transformed. The very definition of sustainability and its political and normative aspirations is shaped by the ways these temporal modalities relate to each other in policy practices. Depending on governing modes and modalities of time, sustainability is experienced and imagined in very different ways. |
