Imperial Standard Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12199022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald Gordon (0000-0002-7067-1964, Senior researcher in public international law at the Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Geoff Gordon (Senior researcher in public international law at the Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1197-1222 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0938-5428 • E-ISSN: 1464-3596 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ejil/chy068 |
| OpenAlex | W2913143834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article examines the establishment of globally standardized time under law in colonial India. Despite pretensions to abstract universality, globally standardized time was and remains a particular construction, built on the basis of particular interests. Since its creation, select parties have competed to dominate the production and operation of globally standardized time, and their competition has been steeped with law. In short, globally standardized time and what we today call transnational law are mutually implicated in the construction of one another. The history of their interaction in colonial India makes clear the ways they work together as a sort of technology, produced and maintained for particular purposes. Those purposes include the capacity to stabilize expectations and establish normative baselines in support of transactional networks across borders, and ultimately around the world. The process continues to this day, with standardized time and law interacting to enable and disable a changing array of legal practices and expectations internationally. The establishment of globally standardized time under law in colonial India reveals the foundations of this interrelationship, including imperial interests and ideologies embedded in its material development
Colonialism · Economics · Ideology · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Sociology · sort · Universality (dynamical systems · Work (physics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Engineering · European and International Contract Law · Law in Society and Culture · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |