Time, temporality and violence in international relations : (de)fatalizing the present, forging radical alternatives / edited by Anna M. Agathangelou and Kyle Killian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of Time and Temporality in World Politics / Anna M. Agathangelou and Kyle D. Killian -- International Relations as a Vulnerable Space : A Conversation with Fanon and Hartman about Temporality and Violence / Anna M. Agathangelou and Kyle D. Killian -- Time, Technology, and the Imperial Eye : Perdition on the Road to Redemption in International Relations Theory / Siba Grovogui -- The Social Life of Social Death : On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism / Jared Sexton -- Time and Practices in Global Politics / Ty Solomon -- Doing Time in the (Psychic) Commons : Black Insurgency and the Unconscious / Frank B. Wilderson III -- Outside of Time : Salvage Ethnography, Self-Representation, and Performing Culture / Wanda Nanibush -- Impolitical Mandate : Defatalising a Port City / Suvendrini Perera and Annette Seeman -- The Productive Ambivalences of Post-Revolutionary Time : Discourse, Aesthetics, and the Political Subject of the Palestinian Present / Nasser Abourahme -- Migrant Day Laborers, Neoliberal Temporality, and the Politics of Time / Paul Apostolidis -- Atemporal Dwelling : Heterotopias of Homelessness in Contemporary Japan / Ritu Vij -- Child's Play : Discursive Temporality in Environmental Ethics / Andrew Hom and Brent J. Steele -- Childhood, Redemption and the Prosaics of Waiting / Sam Opondo -- Temporality of Difference and In/Security : Managing Difference Internally and Internationally in the Post-colonial World / Pinar Bilgin -- Killing Time : Writing the Temporality of Global Politics / Asli ðCalkivik -- Hurricane Katrina and Bio-Temporalities : Media Representations of "Environmental" Disasters / Michael Shapiro -- Re-Imagining the Anonymous City : Defatalizing the Digital Present Through Analog Photography / Cliff Davidson -- Freedom Telling on Time: The Arab Revolt's Poems / by Nathalie Handal -- Blunt Balm Dust to Dust / Tsitsi Jaji -- IMAGE / FILM STILLS : From the Bed and Breakfast Notebooks / Alexandra Handal.

Time transforms the way we see world politics and insinuates itself into the ways we act. In this groundbreaking volume, Agathangelou and Killian bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to tackle time and temporality in international relations. The authors - critical theorists, artists, and poets - theorize and speak from the vantage point of the anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial event. They investigate an array of experiences and structures of violence - oppression, neocolonization, slavery, war, poverty and exploitation - focusing on the tensions produced by histories of slavery and colonization and disrupting dominant modes of how we understand present times. This edited volume takes IR in a new direction, defatalizing the ways in which we think about dominant narratives of violence, 'peace' and 'liberation', and renewing what it means to decolonize today's world. It challenges us to confront violence and suffering and articulates another way to think the world, arguing for an understanding of the 'present' as a vulnerable space through which radically different temporal experiences appear. And it calls for a disruption of the "everyday politics of expediency" in the guise of neoliberalism and security. This volume reorients the ethical and political assumptions that affectively, imaginatively, and practically captivate us, simultaneously unsettling the familiar, but dubious, promises of a modernity that decimates political life. Re-animating an international political, the authors evoke people's struggles and movements that are neither about redemption nor erasure, but a suspension of time for radical new beginnings.