It is essential to interrogate how representations of the homegrown threat in security practice may instead be influencing insecurity.
Time is neither ‘natural’ nor just. It is used, valued and understood in ways that reflect and sustain economic, social and political inequalities.
If we want to take time seriously in IR we will need to think through the epistemological implications and complications entailed in making such an analytical shift.
Global time, principally Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), is the product of global governors operating in and through sociotechnical assemblages.
The unforeseeable future implicates the present but also the manner in which decisions in the present operate at the intersection of meaning in past and future.
Timing, almost wholly ignored in IR, is a fundamental human activity – a basic means of synthesising pertinent changes for practical and political effect.
ISIS is not unique when it comes to the significance of temporality as issues pertaining to the past have been a constant factor in Islamic thought.
The relationship of time, politics and globalisation involves the interaction of the global imposition of a Western timescale and local ideas of timekeeping.
A heterotemporal orientation decentres the position of the ethical theorist by questioning the assumption of a fusion between his or her particular present and ‘the’ present of world politics.
This book address subjects such as war, terrorism, identity, and governance to demonstrate how focusing on temporal aspects can enhance our understanding of the world.
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