Articulations
Peer-reviewed articles on “Temporal Communities”
Recently published
Through a creative critical reading of the translations of a ninth-century Copper Plate Deed and other narratives from precolonial South India, this essay attempts to deconstruct the colonial-nationalist historiographic project that imagined linear, progressive and homogenous histories for communities with heterogenous roots/routes. I examine selected narratives of Suriyani Christian identity formation in “Kerala” during the…
This Case Study examines how “digital narrative communities” emerge as collective spaces of storytelling in response to what Byung-Chul Han describes as the contemporary crisis of narration. In an era shaped by neoliberal subjectivity, platform capitalism, and the rapid circulation of informational fragments, narrative coherence is increasingly strained as personal experiences are transformed into content…
Spotlight
This interview with the internationally renowned Kenyan writer, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, conducted by PhD-student Raphaëlle Efoui-Delplanque, provides insight into the complexities of conceptualising “circulation” when its manifestations differ greatly depending on geographic, geopolitical, and cultural positionings. In the course of the conversation, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor touches upon matters of home and movement, discusses the necessity…
