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Introduction: Entangled Temporalities

Hsiung, Hansun; Lenel, Laetitia; Meister, Anna-Maria

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Laetitia Lenel

Anna-Maria Meister



Abstract

This introduction discusses knowledge production as the negotiation of entangled temporalities embedded in the materials, methods, and institutions of a variety of incongruous practitioners. We begin by exploring the reasons for the rise of temporal multiplicity as a thematic focal point in recent scholarship. From here, we proceed to show what studying entangled temporalities can offer histories of knowledge. First, it enables historians to trace affective and material connections in ways that break with accepted geographies, periodizations, and disciplinary borders. From medieval South Asia to modern-day Siberia, temporal negotiation seems prompted by anxieties over the loss of knowledge and the search for permanence; by the maintenance or foreclosure of bonds of empathy; and by the divergent and occasionally conflicting affordances of artifacts that configure and manipulate time. Second, a focus on temporal entanglements also challenges established conventions and practices of historiography, opening a pathway of reflexivity for historians to write in alternative ways.

Citation

Hsiung, H., Lenel, L., & Meister, A. (2023). Introduction: Entangled Temporalities. Journal for the History of Knowledge, 4, 9-32. https://doi.org/10.55283/jhk.17017

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 3, 2023
Online Publication Date Nov 22, 2023
Publication Date 2023
Deposit Date Nov 23, 2023
Publicly Available Date Nov 23, 2023
Journal Journal for the History of Knowledge
Publisher Ubiquity Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 4
Pages 9-32
DOI https://doi.org/10.55283/jhk.17017
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1947688

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