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The coloniality of time in the global justice debate : de-centring Western linear temporality

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02/06/2022
Author
Hunfeld, Katharina
Keywords
Time and temporality
Global justice
Coloniality
Relational theory
Feminist relational theory
African ubuntu thought
JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
JZ International relations
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Abstract
Differences between, and struggles over, plural forms of time and temporal categories is a crucial yet underexplored aspect of debates about global justice. This article aims to reorient the global justice debate towards the question of time by, first of all, critically problematising the coloniality of the Western temporal assumptions underlying the literature, and furthermore by stressing the need to account for the plurality of time. I argue that in the global justice debate, the implicitly racialised teleological narrative of linear time is particularly prevalent in the discourse on development as well as the debate on historical injustices. In order to avoid the epistemic violence resulting from the uncritical acceptance of Western temporal frameworks as universally valid, global normative theorising needs to move reflections on time to the centre of their considerations. This article suggests that relational theory offers pertinent resources for making sense of alternative ways of narrating, conceptualising, and experiencing temporality. The article encourages a conversation between Western and non-Western relational approaches, proposing the temporal dimension of feminist as well as African ubuntu thought as particularly promising starting points for contesting the epistemological privilege of analytic approaches dominating the global justice literature.
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Hunfeld , K 2022 , ' The coloniality of time in the global justice debate : de-centring Western linear temporality ' , Journal of Global Ethics , vol. 18 , no. 1 , pp. 100-117 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2022.2052151
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Journal of Global Ethics
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2022.2052151
ISSN
1744-9626
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25487

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