Taking Political Time

Thinking Past the Emergency Timescapes of the New Climate Movements

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ID4435477
AutoresGeoffrey Hayes (0000-0003-1871-1188), Graeme Hayes, Sherilyn Macgregor (0000-0003-1815-2267)
Año2023
Volumen122
Número1
Páginas181-191
Fecha de publicación2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-10242756
OpenAlexW4308654990
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas12

This article discusses the contrasting "temporal regimes" of Extinction Rebellion and the concept of a feminist green new deal. The authors discuss the former's emphasis on emergency to stimulate disobedient action, particularly out of concern for one's future children and grandchildren. They argue that, while this emphasis has successfully catalyzed public agency, this agency remains socially narrow, as emergency thinking subordinates the political time central to inclusive movement building, while the personalization of intergenerational concern risks reproducing privilege and asset protection. As a result, actually existing material and symbolic inequalities are characteristically decentered. The authors contrast this with the timescapes of calls for a feminist green new deal, which eschew both crisis narratives and reprocentric futurism. In troubled times, they conclude, it is more productive to reconsider not just when but how to address the demands of climate breakdown

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