Timely Ecocriticism: Reading Time Critically in the Environmental Humanities

Huebener, Paul

doi:10.1093/isle/isy037

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“…As many of our critical time allies (Bastian 2012: 25; Huebener 2018) argue it is important to clarify how particular social arrangements work and synchronize and to highlight how temporal relations with several other things or beings work. This is of importance also in museum settings, particularly as such institutions are major social institutions that work with time and temporal design.…”

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Curating time – Museum-things as counterclocks in a climate-challenged world

Fredengren,

Owman

2023

Time & Society

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Climate changes in every social sector, every web of life, radical change is occurring, and we all have to find ways to relate to such fundamental transformation. In this paper, we explore how museums can engage with environmental changes and concerns in new ways. By understanding how the power of time operates, one can make visible temporal connections between human and more-than-human agencies, control and negligence and its consequences. The paper explores the huge potential of museum exhibitions to open up various temporal relations, crucial both for witnessing, learning and un-learning the human impact on the world. Time is one of the museum's most important dimensions and the effects of recognizing other temporalities rather than the prevailing anthropocentric ones – become profound. We have selected one particular exhibition to work with: ‘500 years of Monarchical Power’ at the Royal Armory in Stockholm to explore how temporal relations are produced and maintained in this exhibition. The starting point is that time is not only something measured but also made, which opens up for analyzing museum temporalities in new ways. As will be shown under common museum narratives lies temporal complexities that weaves through human-animal relations, care time and those of planetary change. How, then, can we lay the ground for developing what could be called a more affirmative and ecologically inclusive alter-museum by curating time differently?

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Curating time – Museum-things as counterclocks in a climate-challenged world

Fredengren,

Owman

2023

Time & Society

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“…Significantly, when considering tidescapes, to this complex assemblage of human and nonhuman agents that generate space we might also integrate differing time characteristicssuch as rhythm and tempothat serve to make space distinct (Edensor 2010, Jones 2010, p. 194, 2011, p. 2289, Huebner 2018. The distinct rhythms of the tides on their own and in relationship to other tempos (seasonal; diurnal) and the way in which they govern practices and ways of dwelling serve to make tidescapes particularly distinct.…”

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Ecclesiastical Tidescapes: Exploring the Early Medieval Tidal World

Petts¹

2019

Norwegian Archaeological Review

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This paper explores the way in which tides contribute to the construction of complex cognitive landscapes. Drawing on the notion of assembly and process it emphasises how tidescapes are in a constant state of becoming. The early medieval monastery of Lindisfarne (Holy Island, Northumberland, UK) is used as a case study to explore the manifold ways in which tides might inculcate themselves within the lived experiences of those who lived on the island during the Anglo-Saxon period.

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“…A present, that when mobilized for collective action is no longer just a personal "now," but an emergent resource for political action which specific actors, in this case, president Correa and his government, use to mobilize whole temporal horizons (a partially stabilized way of reading social reality through the lens of the difference between pasts and futures). 8 This is part of what Rufer, Sharma, and others have referred to as temporal politics or the social politics of time (Huebener 2018;Rufer 2010;Sharma 2008).…”

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The intersections between infrastructures and expectations: repair and breakdown in Yachay, the city of knowledge in Ecuador

Gómez-Urrego

2019

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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This paper explores the temporalities of infrastructuring, breakdown, and repair/disrepair interacting generativelymaterially and symbolicallyin "Yachay, the city of knowledge," the most ambitious and controversial public infrastructural project in Ecuador's history. I analyze the roles of expectations, and the infrastructural dynamics in the process of shaping Yachay during its intragovernmental scaling-up from a technical university to a city of knowledge; and during the material implementation of some of its basic physical infrastructure. I also highlight the embeddedness of the expectations in particular pasts and historical trajectories, thus extending the common use of expectations as only oriented to the future. The argument presented here draws on fieldwork conducted in Yachay for 14 months between 2016 and 2018.

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Timely Ecocriticism: Reading Time Critically in the Environmental Humanities

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Curating time – Museum-things as counterclocks in a climate-challenged world

Curating time – Museum-things as counterclocks in a climate-challenged world

Ecclesiastical Tidescapes: Exploring the Early Medieval Tidal World

The intersections between infrastructures and expectations: repair and breakdown in Yachay, the city of knowledge in Ecuador

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