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Power and Time : Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History
Title
Power and Time : Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History / ed. by Stefanos Geroulanos, Natasha Wheatley, Dan Edelstein.
ISBN
9780226706016
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (464 p.) : 17 halftones
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
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 bring together essays that challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts- "power" and "time"-as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how "temporal regimes" are constituted through the shaping of power in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on a wide variety of subjects: human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; 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 innovative contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Chronocenosis: An Introduction to Power and Time
Part I Temporal Pluralities in Conflict
1 Legal Pluralism as Temporal Pluralism: Historical Rights, Legal Vitalism, and Non-Synchronous Sovereignty
2 The Invention of the Muslim Golden Age: Universal History, the Arabs, Science, and Islam
3 Rise and Fall of the Sattelzeit: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the Temporality of Totalitarianism and Genocide
4 A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding Up and Down Temporal Scales with Plastic
Part II Loops, Layers, Assemblages
5 Long Divided Must Unite, Long United Must Divide: Dynasty, Histories, and the Orders of Time in China
6 The Temporal Assemblage of the Nazi New Man: The "Empty" Present, the Incipient Ruin, and the Apocalyptic Time of Lebensraum
7 Prehistory and Posthistory: Apes, Caves, Bombs, and Time in Georges Bataille
Part III The Splintered Present
8 Brain-Time Experiments: Acute Acceleration, Intensified Synchronization, and the Belatedness of the Modern Subject
9 Cryopower and the Temporality of Frozen Indigenous Blood Samples
10 "Now Is the Time for Helter Skelter": Terror, Temporality, and the Manson Family
Part IV Speed(s)
11 Legal Panics, Fast and Slow: Slavery and the Constitution of Empire
12 Time and the Economics of the Business Cycle in Modern Capitalism
13 History and Temporal Sovereignty in the Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru
Part V "Already Here . . . Just Not Evenly Distributed": Heterochronies of the Future
14 Future Perfect: Political and Emotional Economies of Revolutionary Time
15 The Future in the US Supreme Court
16 Commemorating the End of History: Timelessness and Power in Contemporary Russia
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index of Temporal Terms
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