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  • Diaspora, temporality, and politics: Promises and dangers of rotational time

    Author(s):
    Patrick Eisenlohr (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Anthropology, Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    Time--Philosophy, Indian Ocean Region, Area studies, Emigration and immigration, Ethnicity, Immigrants--Social conditions, South Asian diaspora, Hinduism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Mauritius, Coolitude, Hindu diaspora, Sikh diaspora, Henri Bergson, Theories of time and temporality, Indian ocean studies, Diaspora studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/t85g-fb98
    Abstract:
    In this contribution, I take up Michael Nijhawan’s focus on the embodied aspects of memory and time he elaborates so insightfully in "The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations", specifically his invocation of, via Veena Das’s work, of Bergson’s distinction between translational and rotational time. Drawing on examples from my own work on Hindu diasporas in Mauritius and the ways in which processes of diasporization in Mauritius have been incited and sanctioned by a specific Mauritian postcolonial regime of nation-building, I point to the affordances that Bergson’s “rotational” movement in memory provides for the making of memories of displacement.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1080/17448727.2018.1545188
    Publisher:
    Informa UK Limited
    Pub. Date:
    2018-11-20
    Journal:
    Sikh Formations
    Volume:
    16
    Issue:
    1-2
    Page Range:
    166 - 171
    ISSN:
    1744-8727,1744-8735
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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