Timerendering: reflections on chronopolitical praxis in Bolivia

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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Timerendering: reflections on chronopolitical praxis in Bolivia
Journal
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Author(s)
Goodale M.
ISSN
1359-0987 (print)
1467-9655 (electronic)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2022
Volume
28
Number
3
Pages
788-806
Language
english
Abstract
This article uses reflections on chronopolitical praxis during the period 2006-19 in Bolivia in order to make a more general contribution to the anthropology of time and temporalities. The article proposes the theoretical concept of ‘timerendering’ in order to examine the ways in which time emerged as a pervasive register that mediated and also deepened political, social, and ethnic conflict in Bolivia. After illustrating the mechanisms through which timerendering in Bolivia gave way to forms of allochronic denial that are described as ‘hypertemporal exclusion’, the article explains how and why the MAS government's timerendering strategies unravelled, which left it susceptible to the right-wing coup of October/November 2019. The article concludes by narrating the endtimes of the Morales government in Bolivia, before considering what this moment and its afterlives have to say more generally about the anthropology of time as a disciplinary orientation.
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