The coloniality of time in the global justice debate : de-centring Western linear temporality
| Autor: | Katharina Hunfeld |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of St Andrews. School of International Relations |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Global justice T-NDAS SDG 16 - Peace Justice and Strong Institutions Time and temporality SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities African ubuntu thought NIS JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration JV Philosophy Relational theory JZ International relations Feminist relational theory JZ Coloniality |
| Popis: | Differences between, and struggles over, plural forms of time and temporal categories is a crucial yet underexplored aspect of debates about global justice. This article aims to reorient the global justice debate towards the question of time by, first of all, critically problematising the coloniality of the Western temporal assumptions underlying the literature, and furthermore by stressing the need to account for the plurality of time. I argue that in the global justice debate, the implicitly racialised teleological narrative of linear time is particularly prevalent in the discourse on development as well as the debate on historical injustices. In order to avoid the epistemic violence resulting from the uncritical acceptance of Western temporal frameworks as universally valid, global normative theorising needs to move reflections on time to the centre of their considerations. This article suggests that relational theory offers pertinent resources for making sense of alternative ways of narrating, conceptualising, and experiencing temporality. The article encourages a conversation between Western and non-Western relational approaches, proposing the temporal dimension of feminist as well as African ubuntu thought as particularly promising starting points for contesting the epistemological privilege of analytic approaches dominating the global justice literature. Publisher PDF |
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