Movements in time : revolution, social justice, and times of change / edited by Cecile Lawrence and Natalie Churn.

"2011 was a tumultuous year in terms of social protest movements. The Occupy movement spread across the globe with unprecedented support of an enormity not seen since 1968, while revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria and Libya caught the attention of the global media and brought the word "revolution" back into public discussions on social justice and governance. For many people worldwide, it appears that it is time for social, political and economic change. And it is precisely time, in all its forms, which cannot be ignored in this context. As something that surrounds us and affects every aspect of our lives, time is at once a tool for control, for order, for emancipation, for understanding the future and the past, and measuring degrees of freedom and quality of life in the present. This book brings together essays from fields such as politics, cultural studies and philosophy in order to reinterpret and reorient current thinking on the possibilities for new understandings of concepts of time to bring about social change. History as the passing of time, clock time, the exchange value of time, qualitative time, and alternative or marginal notions of temporality are analysed through the lens of various theoretical thinkers and applied to a multitude of political and social case studies. Breaking away from traditional notions of time as linear, and against common socially-constructed understandings of time, these essays suggest that new conceptions of time can have a major influence on creating a more just, tolerant world."--Book description.

pt. 1. A secret heliotropism of May '68 -- Surveying activists' attitudes toward time -- The temporality of double consciousness -- Marx "after" Lyotard -- pt. 2. Towards a future pregnant with becoming -- Women and becoming-woman -- New earth, new people -- Nostalgia, past and future hopes -- pt. 3. Bogan time and the race that stops the nation -- September 12th -- Strangers to life on earth -- The slow foundations of hyper-speed -- The trappings of time -- pt. 4. (Dis)abling time -- Precarious times -- Messianic time and historical materialism -- Glorious instants, perpetual recurrences -- The final revolt, the true life -- pt. 5. Cosmetic pharmacology in (con)temporary societies -- The non-linear future of alternative presents -- The long now -- An ecology of times -- pt. 6. A time for Arab revolutions -- Revolutionary time as an encounter and intersection of differences -- Revolution and its autodestruction -- Zamani to Sasa -- Moderninity, revolution, silence -- Because I have nothing better to do.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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