Anarchism/anachronism
Mobilising archiveology against an urban chronopolitics of dispossession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8963648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin Collins (0000-0002-4209-1786, Geography, Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-82 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.12581 |
| OpenAlex | W4302288030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 31 |
While moments of historic rupture do usher in radically new conditions for claiming urban space and power, the eras they cleave do not align neatly in the lives of the urban precariat. Rather, they overspill and interdigitate, saturating the present. This paper vivifies heterotemporality as an analytic, rather than descriptive, category for urban politics and scholarship. Drawing together Walter Benjamin's radical mode of historical and image‐centric inquiry with Mimi Nguyen's and Dai Jinhua's critiques of recombinant imperial formations, I seek to unsettle the uncritical chronopolitics of rupture that has practically and discursively undergirded dispossession in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Arguing against strategic representations of urban rupture as only a break from the past, I offer instead a dialectical conception of rupture as interacting movements of break and amplification of the past in the present. Advancing ‘archiveology’ as an urban research praxis that activates a heterotemporal, collective urban archive – composed of the built landscape, oral accounts, historical records and filmic representations – shocks the potential of what has been, constellating alternative politics of the present. I suggest that this theoretical‐methodological framework offers critical insights beyond Phnom Penh, especially for other historic‐geographies that have been strategically attenuated via categorical post‐s (e.g., post‐colonial, post‐socialist, post‐conflict)
Anachronism · Colonialism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Praxis · Scholarship · Sociology · Subaltern · Cambodian History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Hiroshima TracesTime, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory
Traces of Trauma
The Political Economy of the Cambodian Transition
For the War Yet to Come
Cambodia Deals with its Past
Plantation Futures
Life (and limb) in the fast-lane
Social geography I
Violence as fetish
Of Crowded Histories and Urban Theory
Rupture-Talk in the Nuclear Age
To extend
The rice cities of the Khmer Rouge
Red Harvests
Chronopolitics
For the City Yet to Come
Postsocialist informality
Rule and Rupture
China's Urban Speed Machine
Geographic Dialectics
Phnom Penh during the Cambodian Genocide
Indonesian domestic workers and the (un)making of transnational livelihoods and provisional futures
Repatriation, Refoulement, Repair
Politics of the Urban Poor
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |