
Temporal Politics
Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures
Adrian Little(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 4. July 2022
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-3995-0464-5 (ISBN)
Description
Adrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, present and future contribute to the nature of political conflict in the world today. Reacting against narratives of political disillusionment and apathy, he focuses on how a new understanding of political temporality can inform our approach to political problems. He forms his argument around three major cases in which the nature of past, present and future is contested: Indigenous politics in settler colonies; the politics of bordering and migration; and debates over the future of democracy.
Reviews / Votes
Little's Temporal Politics urges a reimagined understanding of temporality in the study of politics. [...] The successive content chapters offer a political account of temporality and temporal accounts of political events. -- R. A. Harper * CHOICE * What does it mean politically that time is experienced in different ways? Temporal Politics alerts us to the fact that disputes over time lie at the heart of settler-colonialism, border politics and democratic crisis. Little brings enormous clarity to notoriously complex philosophies of time and makes them speak powerfully to the practical question of what is to be done. * Anne McNevin, The New School for Social Research * A sophisticated and highly intelligent assessment of the subject, it is an original and important study that works very well on two complementary levels: first, as an incisive and reflective analysis of the current state - and blind spots - of political theory; and second, as a perceptive examination of temporality. I have no doubt that the book is a distinctive and innovative contribution to political theory, drawing on several developments of the past twenty years and carrying them further on, itself a contributor to the trends it investigates. -- Michael Freeden, University of Oxford (emeritus)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-0464-5 (9781399504645)
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Person
Adrian Little is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in recognition of his research in areas including political theory, democratic politics, Indigenous-settler relations and the politics of Northern Ireland. Previous books include Enduring Conflict (Bloomsbury, 2014), Democratic Piety (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Democracy and Northern Ireland (Palgrave, 2004) and The Politics of Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2002).
Content
Preface
Part I
1. The Context of Temporal Politics
2. Rethinking Time
3. Time and Temporality
Part II
4. Contesting the Past. Temporality in Indigenous Politics
5. Locating the Present in the Past and Future. The Complex Temporality of Borders
6. Uncertain Futures. The Temporality of Democracy
Part III
7. From Process Philosophy to Temporal Politics
8. Coda. Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures
Bibliography
Part I
1. The Context of Temporal Politics
2. Rethinking Time
3. Time and Temporality
Part II
4. Contesting the Past. Temporality in Indigenous Politics
5. Locating the Present in the Past and Future. The Complex Temporality of Borders
6. Uncertain Futures. The Temporality of Democracy
Part III
7. From Process Philosophy to Temporal Politics
8. Coda. Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures
Bibliography