Charles Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, in conversation with Anne McNevin.
Before his untimely passing in 2021, Charles discusses his essays on White Time and The Chronopolitics of Racial Time. He reflects on the works that provoked his interest in temporality, the under-theorization of race in decolonial approaches to temporality, and the politics of reparative racial justice.
Relevant Publications
Mills, C. W. (2014). “White Time: The Chronic Injustice of Ideal Theory.” Du Bois Review 11(1): 27-42.
Mills, C. W. (2020). “The Chronopolitics of Racial Time.” Time & Society 29(2): 297-317.
Madeleine Reeves, Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at Oxford University, in conversation with Loren Landau
Drawing on her fieldwork with migrants in Central Asia, Madeleine discusses the temporality of cross-border labour regimes, stuckedness and progress narratives, temporal governing strategies, future-making amidst the revocation of futures, and ethnographic modes of attentiveness to time.
Relevant Publications
Relevant Publications:
Reeves, M. 2019. The Queue: Bureaucratic Time, Distributed Legality, and the Work of Waiting in Migrant Moscow. Suomen Antropologi 44 (2): 20-39.
Loren Landau, Professor of Migration and Development at the University of Oxford, Research Professor at the University of Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration and Society and co-director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, in conversation with Anne McNevin
Loren discusses divergent orientations to time and space manifesting in African cities and reflects on their implications for the idea of the state, religious formations, and the prospects and pitfalls of transnational solidarities. Loren also discusses his 2018 article, A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe’s Migrant Crisis and Africa’s Reterritorialization.
Relevant Publications
Landau, L. B. (2018). “A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe’s Migrant Crisis and Africa’s Reterritorialisation.” Antipode 51(1): 169-186.
Michelle Bastian, Senior lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, founder of the Temporal Belongings Network, and editor in chief of Time & Society, in conversation with Anne McNevin
Michelle introduces the idea of critical horology as a complement to critical cartography. She reflects on what it would mean to become more time literate and why a beer glass is also a time-reckoning instrument
Relevant Publications
Bastian, M. (2017). “Liberating Clocks: Developing a Critical Horology to Rethink the Potential of Clock Time.” New Formations 92: 41-55.
Bastian, M. (2019). “Retelling Time in Grassroots Sustainable Economy Movements.” Geohumanities 5(1): 36-53.