Timescapes of Waiting

Singer, Christoph; Wirth, R.; Berwald, Olaf

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“…Results from Ingenio also reveal how waiting can feel more stretched out and arduous amidst temporal uncertainty when waiting will end/when recovery can begin-particularly for less well-resourced families, which resonates with several works on the heterogeneous temporalities of waiting (Janeja & Bandak, 2018;Singer et al, 2019). When waiting for the restoration of public services, clock time and experienced time did not coincide within the domestic space.…”

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“…Clock-time assumes temporalities are lived, embodied, and experienced homogeneously. Yet time can feel more irritating and more prolonged if waiting is unexpected (Singer et al, 2019). Waiting can feel more stretched out if one must wait in difficult conditions (Tefera, 2021).…”

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“…Waiting is a particular engagement in, and with, time and space (Janeja & Bandak, 2018). For a period, short or extended, an individual or a collective find itself placed in a situation or situations where what is hoped for or anxiously anticipated has not yet been actualised (Singer et al, 2019). Bayart (2007) has argued that waiting is a central experience of subaltern groups because, as well as being marked by time and space, waiting is also political : who must wait, for how long, and in what kind of difficulty or discomfort are all expressions of the exercise of power.…”

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“…Families’ access to all three are largely determined by state actors on local, national, and federal government levels in Puerto Rico. Longitudinal qualitative data on waiting are drawn from one low‐income Puerto Rican neighbourhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated the Caribbean Island in 2017, in ways that resonate with several socio‐temporal studies of waiting by, for example, Auyero (2011), Janeja and Bandak (2018), or Singer et al (2019).…”

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Waiting during disasters: Negotiating the spatio‐temporalities of resilience and recovery

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Howarth

2023

Geographical Research

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Always spatial, waiting time is the observation of past‐present‐future, and temporality is the condition of being bounded by time. Both are mechanisms of state governance that control how and when families recover from rapid‐onset humanitarian disasters. Analysing these spatio‐temporalities reveals how families leverage resources to engage in acts of resilience that challenge the state’s spatio‐temporal control of recovery. A case study focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in 2017. We draw on qualitative longitudinal research to explore politicised spatio‐temporal experiences of waiting for the state to fix public infrastructures; approve financial support; and provide access to affordable consumables—which all shape families’ recovery rates and pathways. Disaster‐affected families do not passively wait for the state and often leverage their incomes and social networks to engage in resilience‐based strategies that ease their everyday lives and enable recovery while waiting for the state. Waiting feels more arduous for families with fewer resources and when there is uncertainty about access to the state and how and when to begin certain recovery activities. Waiting in disasters can also provide space for collective socio‐political practices such as community gardening to emerge in neighbourhoods. For researchers of disasters, this article highlights the spatio‐temporal dimensions of grassroots resilience and the ways in which state power and citizen agency interact in ways that subvert state control of families’ recovery rates in heterogeneous ways. Research on waiting during disasters has great potential to inform and reform governance for resilience and recovery.

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2023

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“…Consider, for instance, the practice of waiting or of letting someone wait, which can be observed in both domestic party politics and modern international relations but which also played an important role in courtly diplomacy. 81 Relations of early modern European diplomats frequently mentioned and carefully attended to the time spent waiting for an audience with a local prince. Being granted an audience with, for example, the ahosu (king) of Dahomey immediately after one's arrival was understood as an honor and a sign of precedence over rival diplomatic agents, whereas being made to wait signified an inferior status.…”

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The Time of Politics, the Politics of Time, and Politicized Time: An Introduction to Chronopolitics

Esposito,

Becker

2023

History and Theory

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Time is so deeply interwoven with all aspects of politics that its centrality to the political is frequently overlooked. For one, politics has its own times and rhythms. Secondly, time can be an object and an instrument of politics. Thirdly, temporal attributes are used not only to differentiate basic political principles but also to legitimize or delegitimize politics. Finally, politics aims at realizing futures in the present or preventing them from materializing. Consequently, the relationship between politics and time encompasses a broad spectrum of phenomena and processes that cry out for historicization. In our introduction to this History and Theory theme issue on chronopolitics, we argue that the concept of chronopolitics makes it possible to do this and, in the process, to move the operation of rethinking historical temporalities from the periphery toward the center of historiographical attention as well as to engage in a dialogue with scholars from a wide range of disciplines. To this end, we propose a broad concept of chronopolitics by discussing existing definitions, by distinguishing between three central dimensions of chronopolitics (the time of politics, the politics of time, and politicized time), and by systematizing possible approaches to studying chronopolitics.

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XIII The Victorian Period

Burke

2021

The Year's Work in English Studies

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This chapter has five sections: 1. General and Prose, including Dickens; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Periodicals, Publishing History, and Drama; 5. Miscellaneous. Section 1 is by Ana Alicia Garza; section 2 is by Lois Burke; section 3 is by Sally Blackburn-Daniels; sections 4 and 5 are by William Baker. In somewhat of a departure from previous accounts, this chapter concludes with a mixed-genre section that covers Samuel Butler Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes, George Gissing, Richard Jefferies, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope. This is followed by a section containing additional materials that came too late to be included elsewhere. These sections have been contributed by William Baker, who thanks for their assistance Dominic Edwards, Olaf Berwald, Beth Palmer, Sophie Ratcliffe, and Caroline Radcliffe.

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Timescapes of Waiting

Cited by 7 publications

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Waiting during disasters: Negotiating the spatio‐temporalities of resilience and recovery

Waiting during disasters: Negotiating the spatio‐temporalities of resilience and recovery

The Time of Politics, the Politics of Time, and Politicized Time: An Introduction to Chronopolitics

XIII The Victorian Period

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