Process-time and event-time : the multiple temporalities of prefiguration
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- Marianne Maeckelbergh (UGent)
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- This chapter briefly explores how two periods of political mobilization, the alter-globalization movement in the first decade of the 20th century and the Occupy movement in the early 2010s, enacted different temporal forms of prefigurative politics. In order to understand the different temporal forms that prefiguration can take, it is necessary to examine how movements integrate ‘process-time’ and ‘event-time’. While the alter-globalization movement integrated process-time with event-time through the punctuated time of the anti-summit mobilization, the occupation and assembly-based movements integrated process-time with event-time through the act of occupation. The dominance of a process-orientated approach within the alter-globalization movement allowed the movement to organize from one event to the next, across time and space, without losing a conception of a singular political process that expands infinitely into the future. In the occupation and assembly-based movements, however, the conflation of the process and the event made it difficult (but not impossible) to continue the process of political organizing after the event of occupation came to an end. Consequently, these different ways of integrating time impacted the ways the movements conceptualized their own success or failure.
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- Maeckelbergh, Marianne. “Process-Time and Event-Time : The Multiple Temporalities of Prefiguration.” The Future Is Now : An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics, edited by Lara Monticelli, Bristol University Press, 2022, pp. 204–16, doi:10.51952/9781529215687.ch014.
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- Maeckelbergh, M. (2022). Process-time and event-time : the multiple temporalities of prefiguration. In L. Monticelli (Ed.), The future is now : an introduction to prefigurative politics (pp. 204–216). https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529215687.ch014
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- Maeckelbergh, Marianne. 2022. “Process-Time and Event-Time : The Multiple Temporalities of Prefiguration.” In The Future Is Now : An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics, edited by Lara Monticelli, 204–16. Bristol: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529215687.ch014.
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- Maeckelbergh, Marianne. 2022. “Process-Time and Event-Time : The Multiple Temporalities of Prefiguration.” In The Future Is Now : An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics, ed by. Lara Monticelli, 204–216. Bristol: Bristol University Press. doi:10.51952/9781529215687.ch014.
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- 1.Maeckelbergh M. Process-time and event-time : the multiple temporalities of prefiguration. In: Monticelli L, editor. The future is now : an introduction to prefigurative politics. Bristol: Bristol University Press; 2022. p. 204–16.
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- [1]M. Maeckelbergh, “Process-time and event-time : the multiple temporalities of prefiguration,” in The future is now : an introduction to prefigurative politics, L. Monticelli, Ed. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022, pp. 204–216.
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