... are confronted with a political sce- nario that is routinely deemed a crisis both by the powers that be and those providing disaster relief on the ground. This essay interrogates how these temporal terms shape the tactics and strategies afoot in the border struggle, exploring what a sense of urgency...

... eliminated. Rather, the governance of migrants has been shifted from physical to temporal borders, which renders “tempo- rality and temporalizing processes in the workings of border regimes” criti- cally relevant (Mezzadra and Neilson 2013: 131). The precarity of migrant domestic workers is now...

... catalysts for instigating a reconguration of the border regime, while also reconrming the global postcolonial connections that otherwise tend to be suppressed. In this sense, highlighting such spatial and temporal connec- tions against the tendency of dealing with migration through episodic...

... time as a through line of racial capitalism. In lieu of a chronology centering the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the terminus of mid-century freedom dreams, these writers illumine the sheer porosity of the temporal border demarcating segregation and post civil rights. They aestheticize what I term...

... the unfolding of time since then reminds us that Gregorian temporal borders cannot contain the forces of life and death any better than Westphalian spatial ones. The first week of 2021 saw 80,300 COVID-19 deaths around the world, massive bushfires burning again in Australia, and the stunning white supremacist...

... the power to impose waiting and appropriate time and, conversely, subversion and the refusal to acquiesce. When controls over mobility are differentially allocated to a population situated within a defined territory, differentiated temporal orders and their impact on subjectivities are put into relief...

... by young men and women as a political act: crossing the sea, crossing borders, shaping a new politics of the freedom of movement where the subjects are more and more aware of their defiance of the border s regime. The term Arab uprisings is problematic for the temporal and spatial boundaries it implicitly...

...? We live in a permanent crisis” (Crossing Borders 2009). From the perspective of per- manent crisis, in which the West has organized the colonial world system, the current crisis expresses a violent resynchronization of temporalities that are out of sync. A 2011 article in the New York...

...Jasbir K. Puar This article examines the production of mobility obstacles and restrictions in Palestine, highlighting dimensions of the logistics of border crossings and movement in the West Bank in relation to disability rights frameworks. It argues two things: that the creation of what Celeste...

... in both the United States and Spain. 6 As markers of ‘‘spatial historicities both national borders mark the two nations’ spatial and temporal limits, preferably closed and finished, but they also encapsulate and delimit national narrations. For the border is not con...

...Davide Gallo Lassere The article reconsiders contemporary internationalist experiences in relation to the multiple temporalities that characterized key cycles of struggles in the 2010s. Although these cycles are heterogeneous in social and political composition, they have resulted in significant...

..., progress, and the rule of law. 1 This picture of impregnable stability relies on a constantly moving battery of meanings and projections. Most importantly, it depends on the borders—physical, conceptual, political, temporal—that guard Europe from dangerous intrusions, especially those coming from...

... of a paradise beyond temporalization, beyond the difference between law and justice.12 At multiple points in their analysis of Walter Mignolo’s highly influential critical apparatus, Scott Michaelsen and Scott Shershow demonstrate the arcadianism of Mignolo’s border thinking, not least...

...Sarah Stefana Smith My first inclination to this prompt, what of Black temporalities in crisis, was to ask a small group of Black familiars (friends and colleagues) to talk with me about their current experience of time in quarantine, and under the present articulations of racial injustice...

... and the persistence of over- wrought oppositions that have ordered cultures and pasts in academic analyses and everyday understanding. My thesis is that the self-conception of the European Renaissance was, basically, expressed in a temporal and spatial matrix that corresponded to a religious...

... .” InTensions 5 , no. 1 : 1 – 47 . Sharpe Christina . 2016 . In the Wake: On Blackness and Being . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Spillers Hortense J. 2003 . “ Who Cuts the Border? Some Readings on America .” Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature...

... the discrepant yet intertwined temporal dynamics of life practices from the side of life subjected to capitalist appropriation of value as well as from the side of life destined for disposable superfluity, or what I call remaindered life. On the US-Mexico border, smugglers of undocumented Mexican migrants have...

...Eugene Brennan This special issue demonstrates how theorizing the present in terms of crisis generates insights into contradictory experiences of historical time. The core questions addressed are these: What are the temporal forms through which crisis is expressed today, and what are the political...

... in the temporal sense but in its very nature as well, since it 28 is entirely removed from the law and from judicial oversight a situation made visible at sites such as Guantánamo Bay. Along the border there are growing numbers of detention centers; many...

... the linear storytelling that erroneously tells us colonialism was inevitable. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 racial capitalism speculative fiction Afro-futurism temporality Afro-Asian References Brown Vincent . 2020 . Tacky’s Revolt...