Time and the other time: Trajectories of Fiji time

Eräsaari, Matti

doi:10.1080/02757206.2018.1445624

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“…Indeed, apologetics for the malign impacts of capitalism often take the form of advice about efficient time-use. In the mid-20th century, such advice still focused on an internalization of time-as-conscience characteristic of the Protestant ethic (Elias, 1992; Eräsaari, 2018). This discourse has been repeatedly used as justification to chastise and ban the “lazy” poor or colonized from institutionalized pathways to success.…”

Section: Tsd As a Theoretical Tool For De-reification Of Spatiotemporal Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Building on the spatiotemporal orientations of European nations, colonial powers have exported the interpretation that industrious time use and productivity are signals of moral worth (Weber, 1958; Wesley, 1839). Colonial outsiders saw traditional indigenous ways of knowing and doing time and space as symbols of moral inferiority, seeing only unprofitable use of space, and idle, “wasted” time (Eräsaari, 2018; Nanni, 2011).…”

Section: Toward a Decolonial Psychology Of Time And Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Central to these colonial strategies was the goal of instilling higher TSD in the colonial subject. This is evinced, for example, by boarding school programs in the United States that taught the economic value of time (Woolford, 2014), compulsory education in Fiji that made telling time by the clock a central facet of the curriculum (Eräsaari, 2018), and the use of “adapted” curricula in Kenya “aimed at the production of subordinate workers” (Ball, 1983, p. 259) who could use time industriously to benefit economic productivity. Such education programs further intentionally separated colonial subjects from their ancestral lands to disrupt indigenous attachments to place and their associated temporalities (Milloy, 2017; Tarabe & Naisilisili, 2008).…”

Section: Toward a Decolonial Psychology Of Time And Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Time-Space Distanciation as a Decolonizing Framework for Psychology

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Young

Keefer

et al. 2021

Review of General Psychology

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Coloniality describes the way in which racialized conceptions of being, personhood, and morality inherent in colonial regimes are maintained long after the formal end of colonial enterprises. Central to coloniality has been the material and psychological colonization of space and time, largely by Western and industrialized nations. We propose the importance of understanding the coloniality of time and space through a historically grounded framework called time-space distanciation (TSD). This framework posits that via the global spread of capitalism through colonization, psychological understandings of time and space have been separated from one another, such that they are now normatively treated as distinct entities, each with their own abstract and quantifiable value. We discuss the construct and its centrality to coloniality, as well as the ways in which contemporary psychology has been complicit in proliferating the coloniality of psychologies of time and space. Finally, we discuss ways to employ the decolonial strategies of denaturalization, indigenization, and accompaniment in the context of future research on the psychology of time and space. TSD contributes to decolonial efforts by combatting the reification of hegemonic psychological constructs, showing how these constructs arise as a function of historical changes in understanding, experience, and use of time and space.

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Section: Tsd As a Theoretical Tool For De-reification Of Spatiotemporal Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Toward a Decolonial Psychology Of Time And Spacementioning

confidence: 99%