Introduction: The social life of time

Waiting for Brexit: Crisis, conjuncture, method

“…For others, this between‐time is described as a sort of entanglement in which people and politics are “caught up,” knotted together with histories, memories, nostalgia, and futures (Benson & Lewis, 2019, p. 2211; Anderson et al, 2020; Bromley‐Davenport et al, 2019). The effect is that geographical writings on Brexit are characterised by a sense of chronological orderings or followings (Anderson et al, 2020; Miller, 2019), which commit and conform to a processual understanding of social time (Baraitser, 2017; Bastian et al, 2020; Holdsworth, 2021). With what follows, I argue for reframing these debates towards concepts, empirics, and praxis of waiting.…”

“…For Sharma, temporalities amount to “ lived time … a specific experience of time that is structured in specific political and economic contexts” (2014, p. 9). Bastian et al similarly describe how “time is intensely and perhaps intrinsically political – it suborns power, and vice versa” (2020, p. 292), and for Massey (1991) and Holdsworth (2021) temporality is likewise intrinsically relational. Indeed, in the context of Brexit, Clarke describes temporality as “the site of strains and tensions and, in consequence, emerges as the focus of political‐cultural struggles for the power to ‘tell the time’” (2019, p. 137).…”

It is about time: Birthdays as modern rites of temporality

“…This line of investigation is not intended as an intervention in the epistemological discussion of time as a natural versus social category. Some theoreticians, like Bergson, Durkheim, and Elias argue—albeit from differing points of view—that time, as a category, is produced by humans alone, while others disagreed (e.g., Bastian et al, 2020; Carvalho, 2018; Gell, 1992: 3–15). As far as we are concerned here, the objectification and conventionalization of time can be explained as a process of “timing,” influencing the dimension of time itself, as proposed by Elias (1992); and as “temporalization of experienced life,” that is, merely a discursive process, as maintained by Koselleck (2002: 168), and also posited by Blumenberg (1983: 462–473) and Latour (1993: 10, 68–69).…”

The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making

“…The temporal analysis developed in this paper advances geographical scholarship that already resits a polarised reading between product and process by paying close attention to the embodied practices of making and the qualities of making spaces (Carr & Gibson, 2016; Paton, 2013; Price & Hawkins, 2018; Smith, 2019). With this paper I seek to open up geographical research to interrogate the temporal rhythms of making through unpicking how time spent making both organises the social and is of the social (Bastian et al, 2020). Evoking a relational interpretation of time and making considers how a geographical lens is apposite for unpicking normative interpretations of what making should be or do.…”