Future Africa?! Timescapes and the Flattening of Time in the Modern Era
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- en This paper critically assesses the making of the modern timescape “the future” from an early modern historian’s and a postcolonial perspective. As a western invention, it was imposed on many societies in the historical contexts of colonialism and imperialism. “The future” is thus loaded with semantics such as ‘civilization versus primitive forms of life’, ‘progress versus backwardness’, ‘development versus regression’ and other similar dichotomies. This article looks into timescapes prevalent in the early modern period, using the latter as a background against which we can reflect on the historical making and baggage of linear timescapes such as the “past, present and future”, about the diversity, or multiplicity, of timescapes in the past and today, how this could inform our understanding of constructions of cultural difference and how much we would need a transperiodical and transregional anthropology of time.
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- Authors
- Lachenicht, Susanne
- Institute of African Studies
- Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
- Place of publication
- Bayreuth
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- Future Africa?! Timescapes and the Flattening of Time in the Modern Era
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- Working paper
- Language
- English
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- volume
- 7
- Date
- 2022
- Number in series
- 31
- pages
- VI, 11
- Number of pages
- 11
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- 31 University of Bayreuth African Studies WORKING PAPERS Future Africa?! Timescapes and the Flattening of Time in the Modern Era Susanne Lachenicht, 2022 academy reflects 7 31 University of Bayreuth African Studies WORKING PAPERS Future Africa?! Timescapes and the Flattening of Time in the Modern Era Susanne Lachenicht, 2022 CC BY 4.0 The Committee and the Uncommitted iii Institute of African Studies (IAS) The University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers are published by the Institute of African Studies (IAS), Bayreuth, Germany. The IAS promotes and coordinates African Studies involving scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines covering almost all faculties at the University of Bayreuth. The IAS acts as umbrella organization and has three central units: the Iwalewahaus, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, and the Africa Research Center (Forschungszentrum Afrika, which is under construction). The IAS coordinates research and teaching as well as the training of junior researchers, cooperates with partners worldwide and facilitates the exchange of information between persons and institutions engaged in research and teaching in or about Africa. In the Working Papers series, we present empirical studies and theoretical reflections, put preliminary findings up for discussion and report on ongoing projects and current research. The Working Papers usually reflect work-in-progress; all contributions relate to African Studies in general and Bayreuth African Studies in particular and invite discussion and feedback. Submitted papers are subject to internal review at the University of Bayreuth. Contributions may be submitted to the editor-in-chief Dr. Jane Ayeko-Kümmeth (ias@uni-bayreuth.de). The University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers feature on the EPub document server at the university library: 2005 - 2018 https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/view/series/Bayreuth_African_Studies_Working_Papers.html 2018 - ongoing https://epub.uni-… Read the full text about 6,285 words
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