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Dear Colleagues,
Please consider proposing a paper for our panel:
*DISTEMPORALITIES:*
*Collisions, Insurrections and Reorientations in the Worlding of Time*
(*On Time*: The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society,
Helsinki, 29–30 August 2019)
As an orientational aid, time seems to be a matter *par excellence *of
worlding: we sense time, we habituate and structure it, but it habituates
and structures us just the same. Time suggests that we are
in/past/against/toward something/someone/somewhere. As it *worlds*, time is
(a referent) of positionality, subjectivity and sensation. It may make
multifarious alliances with space, ideologies and bodily processes. Yet,
‘time’ is not necessarily something in and of itself. Delving into the
plurality of time, anthropologists are increasingly recognising ‘time’ as a
heuristic. So, if we accept that time and temporality are far from clear
universals, then they can also be extrinsic to (temporal) worlds: they may
come and operate from the outside of specific ontological bearings. The
‘external’ can restructure, reorient, unstructure, violate, merge with, or
speak to existing ontological temporalities. It may insist on leaps from
one time to another and on the obliteration of the ‘former’ time so that
the ‘new’ could truly thrive.
Ideological projects seek to be constituted in the ontological – they map
themselves into, or rather *onto *the ‘world’. In so doing, they grapple
with time. In this panel, we seek to understand what happens to
*time-as-worlding *when ‘worlds’ are suddenly or slowly temporally
reoriented. Do the structures and senses of time break, suspend, retreat,
resist, merge with new temporal orders? Do different times strive to forget
each other? Are they subversive of one another? Or, do they smooth out each
other’s edges?
We think of distemporalisation as a project of denial of time – a denial of
historicity, futurity, or change, which is a noticeable element of various
constructions of Otherness. We also take distemporality to signify a
refusal of, and intervention into, qualitatively-specific temporal worlds.
Such projects usually include a demand for a retemporalisation into another
‘world’. Potential contributions could, for example, think revolution,
statehood and nationalism, colonialism and Empire, archives and their
temporal violence, distemporalisation of subjectivity, gender regimes and
their alterities, or worlding of economies of time.
If you are interested in joining this panel, please send your name,
affiliation and the abstract (max. 250 words) to [log in to unmask],
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See you in Helsinki!
*Dr Vanja Hamzić *& *Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović*
SOAS University of London
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*Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović*
Senior Teaching Fellow in Anthropology
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
SOAS University of London
www.BosnianLandscapes.com <http://www.bosnianlandscapes.com/>
*Waiting for Elijah
<https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HadziMuhamedovicWaiting>*
'Syncretic Debris'
<https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/article/view/1233/1121>
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*Dr Vanja Hamzić*
*Senior Lecturer in Legal History*
*and Legal Anthropology*
*SOAS University of London*
Senate House, Room S336
Thornhaugh St, Russell Sq
London WC1H 0XG, UK
+44 (0)20 7898 4501
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