Social geography I: Time and temporality

Ho, Elaine Lynn‐Ee

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“…When students move across different countries and cultures, they are embedded in different time structures such that they experience life transitions as uneven, fragmented, nonlinear temporalities. This argument is further supported by Ho (2021), who elucidates how one's experiences of lifecourse are socially constructed in everyday lived spaces and places. Therefore, through the lens of mobilities, recent literature departs from normative discourses that regard mobile youth's lifecourse transitions as predictable, controllable and predetermined events, and highlights the multiplicity and complexity of life transitions to youth on the move.…”

Section: Mobilities and Transitions To Adulthoodmentioning

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Chinese students at U.K. universities: Transnational education mobilities as a stepping‐stone to adulthood

Wang

2022

Population Space and Place

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This article explores transnational Chinese students' education migration to the United Kingdom through a lifecourse perspective. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 43 transnational Chinese graduates from U.K. universities, I found that participants regarded their transnational education migration as a stepping‐stone to adulthood. Influenced by the mobilities paradigm, this paper elaborates on the transitions to adulthood experienced by transnational Chinese students. The findings illustrate how transnational education mobilities transform social networks, in which transnational Chinese students rehearse their role as an adult in everyday social interactions, and how the intersection of Confucian collectivism and students' class background influences their experiences and understandings of transitions to adulthood. Therefore, this paper advances existing scholarship on transnational Chinese students by proposing a lifecourse perspective and exemplifies the complexities of mobile youth's lifecourse transitions by emphasising the cultural and social construction of transnational Chinese students' adulthood.

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Section: Mobilities and Transitions To Adulthoodmentioning

confidence: 93%

Chinese students at U.K. universities: Transnational education mobilities as a stepping‐stone to adulthood

Wang

2022

Population Space and Place

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“…This essay explains how primitive accumulation not only produces capitalist material relations but also, in the same moment, produces a temporal order that justifies and reproduces them. Following recent scholarship that highlights time’s relationship to politics, nature, and meaning-making (Edensor et al., 2020; Erickson, 2020; Ho, 2021; Lazar, 2019; Ogle, 2019; Winter, 2020), I upend debates about primitive accumulation by recharacterizing its relationship to time, and I advance key insights from studies of racial capitalism and settler-colonialism by explaining how primitive accumulation not only disproportionately harms particular populations but also how it justifies and naturalizes these effects. Further, I explain how temporality is not only a site of domination but also a potential arena for political struggle.…”

Section: Primitive Accumulation’s Spatio-temporal Horizonsmentioning

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The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation

Suell

2022

Environ Plan D

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Scholars have revived the concept of primitive accumulation to describe how explicit violence is an ongoing and structural, rather than simply historical, tool for capitalist domination. However, the relationship between the logic of capitalism and history of capitalism remains obscured. Capitalism is politically enforced and hegemonic, but ongoing instances of capitalist violence repeatedly appear as though they were breaking new ground or finding new frontiers for capitalist growth. In this paper, I offer a novel framework for understanding how primitive accumulation not only creates a capitalist material order but also a temporal order that motivates and reproduces capitalist violence. Focusing on Maasai conflicts over conservation lands in Kenya and Tanzania, I describe how primitive accumulation imposes the historical narratives that naturalize capitalism, ecological rhythms that suppress competing lifeways, and identity categories that marginalize dispossessed populations by characterizing them as primitive. This account advances key debates about settler-colonialism, racial capitalism, and potential resistance by clarifying how disproportionate harm against particular populations is justified, how those justifications reproduce and naturalize capitalist domination, and how temporality represents not only a site of domination but also political struggle.

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“…Other work explicates 'living in simultaneity' for migrants caring for dependants across continents and time-zones (Yeoh et al, 2017). These (excellent) studies all analyse temporality as socially constituted while accepting time as fixed and natural (Ho, 2021(Ho, , p. 1668. This article pushes against these understandings.…”

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Anarchism/anachronism: Mobilising archiveology against an urban chronopolitics of dispossession

Collins¹

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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While moments of historic rupture do usher in radically new conditions for claiming urban space and power, the eras they cleave do not align neatly in the lives of the urban precariat. Rather, they overspill and interdigitate, saturating the present. This paper vivifies heterotemporality as an analytic, rather than descriptive, category for urban politics and scholarship. Drawing together Walter Benjamin's radical mode of historical and image‐centric inquiry with Mimi Nguyen's and Dai Jinhua's critiques of recombinant imperial formations, I seek to unsettle the uncritical chronopolitics of rupture that has practically and discursively undergirded dispossession in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Arguing against strategic representations of urban rupture as only a break from the past, I offer instead a dialectical conception of rupture as interacting movements of break and amplification of the past in the present. Advancing ‘archiveology’ as an urban research praxis that activates a heterotemporal, collective urban archive – composed of the built landscape, oral accounts, historical records and filmic representations – shocks the potential of what has been, constellating alternative politics of the present. I suggest that this theoretical‐methodological framework offers critical insights beyond Phnom Penh, especially for other historic‐geographies that have been strategically attenuated via categorical post‐s (e.g., post‐colonial, post‐socialist, post‐conflict).

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Social geography I: Time and temporality

Cited by 30 publications

References 75 publications

Chinese students at U.K. universities: Transnational education mobilities as a stepping‐stone to adulthood

Chinese students at U.K. universities: Transnational education mobilities as a stepping‐stone to adulthood

The creation of capitalist time: Rethinking primitive accumulation through conservation

Anarchism/anachronism: Mobilising archiveology against an urban chronopolitics of dispossession

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