Chronotope, Story, and Historical Geography: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Space-Time of Narratives

Lawson, James

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00853.x

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“…In particular, this paper responds to recent calls to deepen engagement with understandings of temporality at the nexus of the socio-spatial and socio-legal (Valverde, 2012;Richland, 2008;Lawson, 2011).…”

Section: Spaces Of Contradictionmentioning

confidence: 91%

‘Temporary’ relocation: spaces of contradiction in South African law

Ranslem

2015

International Journal of Law in the Built Environment

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Purpose – This study aims to examine how temporary relocation areas (TRAs), urban forms that facilitate evictions and forced relocations, have been written into South African legal and governmental structures through contested urban planning and legal regimes. Design/methodology/approach – Proceeding from the macro-scale of TRAs spread across the nation, to the mezzo-scale of the Delft Symphony Way TRA in Cape Town, to the micro-scale of an individual “blikkie” (housing unit) within this camp, the article looks at the form and function of the TRA in urban resettlement practices. Special attention is given to relocation areas’ designation as “temporary” spaces and the consequences of this temporal designation in law and on the ground. Findings – These sites have developed as technologies for negotiating competing demands on the state, and their presence foregrounds some of the deeply rooted contradictions in post-apartheid South Africa. They are places both within and apart from the city, often managed by city officials according to municipal specifications, but located proximally to key urban amenities, utilities services and employment centers. They also place contradictory demands on their residents, for whom making the TRA liveable also legitimates it as a form of housing. Originality/value – This article uncovers several concerns about TRAs, including their inadequacy for long-term settlement, their problematic usage as tools of dispossession and the spatial-material-legal imbrications by which TRAs exist, persist and act back upon both individual lives and policy spheres.

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Section: Spaces Of Contradictionmentioning

confidence: 91%

‘Temporary’ relocation: spaces of contradiction in South African law

Ranslem

2015

International Journal of Law in the Built Environment

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“…Linking the chronotopes of narrative or representation with the chronotopes of the 'real-world' is admittedly fraught with difficulty. James Lawson (2011) has, for instance, recently explored this problem of the 'bridge' linking the space-times of the real world to those of fictions, principally by way of a certain simplification, noting that narratives in general produce spatio-temporal truth claims, and by considering the relationships that non-fictional narratives have to their chronotopes, and thus at least indirectly to reality itself. Lawson adds, problematically, that 'with histories or realist novels, this relationship is one of strict correspondence' (Lawson, 2011, p. 385), so that realist novels are 'meant to rest on realworld chronotopes, both through the limits of the author's imagination and through the willingness of audiences to suspend disbelief' (Lawson, 2011, p. 396).…”

Section: Bakhtin and The Chronotopic Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time–geography, gentlemen, please: chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton’s London trilogy

Howell

Beckingham

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper considers the time and the place of drinking in modern British life, as represented in Patrick Hamilton's trilogy of novels set in the publand of London's West End in the interwar years, through Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope and with critical nods to Hagerstrand's time -geography corpus. The chronotopes of pubs and their neighbourhoods, which we term 'publand', are discussed initially in their novelistic presentation in Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (1935), and then in relation to the 'character zones' of the novels' principal protagonists. The key themes, defined in the paper, are the asynchronicity of personal and social relations, the dialogic construction of heterochronicity, and the presentation of a prosaic chronotope. Though the paper is a contribution to literary geography, we aim to contribute to the cultural geographic understanding of the time -space rhythms and routines of everyday leisure drinking, making claims for the wider significance of chronotopic analysis.Temps-géographie, messieurs, s'il vous plaît: chronotopes du paysage du pub dans la trilogie de Londres de Patrick Hamilton Cet article considère le temps et l'espace de la consommation de la boisson dans la vie moderne britannique, telle qu'elle est représentée dans les romans de la trilogie de Patrick Hamilton qui se situent dans le paysage des pubs du quartier de West End à Londres pendant l'entre-deux-guerres. Les paysages et les paysages du temps de la consommation de la boisson sont analysés principalement à travers le concept de chronotope de Mikhail Bakhtin, en passant par le corpus de time -geography de Hagerstrand. Nous discutons des chronotopes des pubs et du voisinage environnant que nous appelons « paysage de pub » par rapport aux « zones de personnages » des protagonistes principaux des romans; les thèmes clés, définis dans l'article, sont l'asynchronicité des rapports personnels et sociaux, une approche dialogique de la temporalité ainsi que du langage, suggérant l'hétérochronicité et le fin du fin de la présentation « réaliste » d'un chronotope prosaïque. Bien qu'étant avant tout une contribution à la géographie littéraire, l'article vise à contribuer à notre compréhension culturelle géographique des rythmes d'espace-temps et des routines quotidiennes de consommation de boisson liée aux loisirs, mettant en avant l'importance de portée plus générale de l'analyse chronotopique.Geografía temporal, señ ores, por favor: los cronotopos de publand en la trilogía londinense de Patrick Hamilton Este trabajo considera la hora y el lugar de beber en la vida británica moderna, como se representa en la trilogía de novelas de Patrick Hamilton ambientadas en aéreas cercanas a bares en el extremo oeste de Londres en los años de entreguerras. Los paisajes y el tiempo del consumo de alcohol se analizan principalmente a través del concepto de cronotopo de Mijail Bajtin, con inclinaciones críticas hacia el corpus de la geografía temporal de Hagerstrand. Los cronotopos de bares y el barrio abarcado por los mismos, ...

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“…Although Bakhtin’s engagement with the chronotope is primarily metaphorical and solely applied to fictional texts, subsequent scholars have illustrated the usefulness of ‘extra-literary’ (Peeren, 2006) or ‘real-world’ (Lawson, 2011) chronotopes, extending from literature to culture, and from art to the study of everyday social interactions (see Wirtz, 2016). In doing so, more precise forms of analysing and contrasting chronotopes have also been proposed.…”

Section: Chronotopic Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Chronotopic dilemmas: Space–time in consumer movements of the Greek crisis

Chatzidakis

2019

Environ Plan D

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This paper explores the spatio-temporal dimensions of consumer activism during the Greek crisis. Existing work has provided valuable insights into the figure of the political consumer and the socio-spatial contexts in which consumer activism is enacted. The paper presents original six-year ethnographic work that extends current knowledge through exploring how the spatial and temporal dimensions of consumer activism are unsettled and reconfigured during an acute economic crisis. It builds on the concept of chronotopic dilemmas to illustrate the ideological tensions and contradictions between old and new spatio-temporal logics and practices. In doing so, the current study complements prior research focused on how distinct cultural and institutional settings mediate discourses and actions of consumer activism, by highlighting their inherently spatio-temporal (chronotopic) nature.

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Chronotope, Story, and Historical Geography: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Space-Time of Narratives

Cited by 47 publications

References 19 publications

‘Temporary’ relocation: spaces of contradiction in South African law

‘Temporary’ relocation: spaces of contradiction in South African law

Time–geography, gentlemen, please: chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton’s London trilogy

Chronotopic dilemmas: Space–time in consumer movements of the Greek crisis

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