2024/09/09 by Rob Kitchin · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Urban Planning and Governance #Philippine History and Culture #Migration, Refugees, and Integration
paper · doi:10.1177/20438206241278951
openalex publication_date 2024/09/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
The value in Ayona Datta's notion of distant time is that the spatialisation of temporal power and its resistance is made explicit. As she demonstrates, the temporal tactics and techniques of statecraft are expressed in the landscape; in the case of Shimla, literally contoured onto the hillside, reproducing spatio-temporal divides. In this commentary, I tease out the contoured temporal relations of the smart and subaltern city and argue that Datta's notion of distant time be extended by creating a typology of the temporal techniques and mechanisms of statecraft and resistance, considering further the temporalities of politics and policies of statecraft, and charting further the multi-scalar nature of statecraft temporalities.