A fuller history of temporalities

Abstract

Thinking with temporalities offers historians new ways of approaching the past. For, like many key categories of historical analysis, the more we push at the category of time, the more it appears not as the neutral ground on which history unfolds, but as central to practices, self-perceptions and group identities that are critical to the unfolding of events, fundamental to the plots and schemas of cultures. This perspective on the 'fullness' of time - events, actions, perceptions saturated in, and made from, time - emerges from a fuller, transdisciplinary practice of history.