Time and the Study of World Politics
| Author | Kimberly Hutchings |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829818771343 |
| Date | 01 June 2018 |
| Published date | 01 June 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Solicited Article |
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Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2018, Vol. 46(3) 253 –258
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Time and the Study of
World Politics
Kimberly Hutchings
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Abstract
The articles in this volume, and the many contributions to the Millennium Conference, ‘The
Politics of Time in International Relations’ from which these articles were drawn, speak to the
ongoing interest in issues of time and temporality in International Relations (IR) and associated
disciplines. They also speak to the very broad range of ways in which time and temporality are
seen to operate in international politics and the ways in which it (international politics) is studied
and judged. I was deeply interested in and stimulated by my participation in the conference, and
what follows is an attempt to situate my own specific concerns on issues of time and temporality,
when I wrote Time and World Politics and subsequently, in the broader context of the developing
literature on time and temporality in IR. Like most of the contributors to this volume, I see the
attention paid to issues of time/temporality in IR as productive for research in the field. However,
in agreement with at least two of the contributors, I am also aware that like any other production
of academic knowledge, including supposedly ‘critical’ academic knowledge, there are always
dangers and limitations inherent in that knowledge and its discursive and practical effects.
Keywords
time, temporality, global ethics
Le temps dans le contexte de l’étude de la politique mondiale
Résumé
Les articles de cet ouvrage, de même que les nombreuses contributions à la conférence Millennium
« La politique du temps dans les relations internationales » dont ils sont issus, s’inscrivent dans le
cadre de l’intérêt actuellement porté aux questions du temps et de la temporalité dans les relations
internationales (RI) et les disciplines associées. Ils concernent aussi l’éventail très large des façons
dont on conçoit le fonctionnement du temps et de la temporalité dans la politique internationale,
ainsi que les manières dont cette dernière est étudiée et jugée. Ma participation à cette conférence
m’a grandement intéressée et stimulée. Je tenterai ici de positionner mes propres interrogations
Corresponding author:
Kimberly Hutchings, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, Mile
End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK.
Email: k.hutchings@qmul.ac.uk
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