Power and Time
Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2021
464 pages
978-0-226-70601-6 (ISBN)
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Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts-"e;power"e; and "e;time"e;-as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how power is constituted through the shaping of temporal regimes in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, Chinese, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; the Anthropocene; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world's most respected and original contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
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Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Chronocenosis: An Introduction to Power and Time-Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley
- Part I. Temporal Pluralities in Conflict
- 1. Legal Pluralism as Temporal Pluralism: Historical Rights, Legal Vitalism, and Non-Synchronous Sovereignty-Natasha Wheatley
- 2. The Invention of the Muslim Golden Age: Universal History, the Arabs, Science, and Islam-Marwa Elshakry
- 3. Rise and Fall of the Sattelzeit: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the Temporality of Totalitarianism and Genocide-Anson Rabinbach
- 4. A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding Up and Down Temporal Scales with Plastic-Andrea Westermann
- Part II. Loops, Layers, Assemblages
- 5. Long Divided Must Unite, Long United Must Divide: Dynasty, Histories, and the Orders of Time in China-Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
- 6. The Temporal Assemblage of the Nazi New Man: The "Empty" Present, the Incipient Ruin, and the Apocalyptic Time of Lebensraum-Stefanos Geroulanos
- 7. Prehistory and Posthistory: Apes, Caves, Bombs, and Time in Georges Bataille-Maria Stavrinaki
- Part III. The Splintered Present
- 8. Brain-Time Experiments: Acute Acceleration, Intensified Synchronization, and the Belatedness of the Modern Subject-Henning Schmidgen
- 9. Cryopower and the Temporality of Frozen Indigenous Blood Samples-Emma Kowal and Joanna Radin
- 10. "Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter": Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family-Claudia Verhoeven
- Part IV. Speed(s)
- 11. Legal Panics, Fast and Slow: Slavery and the Constitution of Empire-Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford
- 12. Time and the Economics of the Business Cycle in Modern Capitalism-Jamie Martin
- 13. History and Temporal Sovereignty in the Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru-Sunil Purushotham
- Part V. "Already Here Just Not Evenly Distributed": Heterochronies of the Future
- 14. Future Perfect: Political and Emotional Economies of Revolutionary Time-Dan Edelstein
- 15. The Future in the US Supreme Court-Kristen Loveland
- 16. Commemorating the End of History: Timelessness and Power in Contemporary Russia-Kevin M. F. Platt
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index of Temporal Terms
