One Time, Many Times
| Published date | 01 January 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829818801494 |
| Author | Rahul Rao |
| Date | 01 January 2019 |
| Subject Matter | Review Articles |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818801494
Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2019, Vol. 47(2) 299 –308
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One Time, Many Times
Rahul Rao
SOAS University of London, UK
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Abstract
This review article surveys recent work on time and temporality in international relations.
It begins with an overview of Kimberly Hutchings’s influential history of ideas exploring
the relationship between chronos (quantitative experience of time) and kairos (qualitative
conceptualisation of time). Building on the architecture of Hutchings’s argument, it surveys
more recent scholarship that supplements, extends and complicates her insights in two ways.
First, while Hutchings focuses on the way in which theorisations of kairos shift over time, the
development of a unified global chronotic imaginary was itself a contested process, frequently
interrupted by kairotic considerations. Second, while Hutchings is interested in western
conceptualisations of kairos, recent work has shifted the analytical focus to those subject
positions marginalised by such kairotic imaginaries.
Keywords
time, chronos, kairos
Corresponding author:
Rahul Rao, SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG, UK.
Email: rr18@soas.ac.uk
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