Time and World Politics
New School for Social Research: Politics
CRN: 14767
Credits: 3
What is the relationship between the conceptualisation of time, the experience of time, and the course of world politics? How and why is time a site of political struggle? This course investigates the temporal assumptions that sit behind prevailing approaches to world politics, the deployment of time for purposes of political legitimation, and the political imaginaries enlivened by alternative temporal frames. The readings are interdisciplinary, engaging for example with clock time, quantum time, geological time, progressive time and indigenous conceptions of time. The readings also engage with different ways of experiencing time as pace, rhythm, waiting, pause, duration, process and event. We will explore the significance of time for big questions in world politics such as the Anthropocene, border control, decolonization, white supremacy and work. Students will be encouraged to think experimentally about alter-times and to inquire into their particular areas of interest from the perspective of time and temporality. The course will be taught online, with a mixture of asynchronous recordings and real-time discussion. Students should be available to be online at the scheduled time each week. Students who are keen to take the course but unable to make that time should contact Anne via email well in advance of the beginning of term as there may be some flexibility in the timing of synchronous components of the course.
College: New School for Social Research (GF)
Department: Politics (POL)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Seminar (R)
Modality: Online - Synchronous
Max Enrollment: 18
Add/Drop Deadline: February 4, 2024 (Sunday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 16, 2024 (Tuesday)
Seats Available: Yes
Status: Closed*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 2:34am EDT 3/29/2024