%0 Journal Article
%T Silent Order: the Temporal Turn in Critical International Relations
%A Andrew R. Hom
%J Millennium
%@ 1477-9021
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0305829818771349
%X Recently, more and more International Relations (IR) scholars have begun to recognise time explicitly as a political phenomenon and an important element of IR theorising. Spanning different approaches and substantive concerns, their efforts suggest that IR is taking a ¡®temporal turn¡¯. This is most evident in the field¡¯s critical wing, which has expanded our perspective on time and challenged temporalities associated with sovereign politics and mainstream theories. However, critical treatments of time also manifest four discursive habits ¨C two targets of criticism and two alternatives ¨C that reproduce hidden tensions and contradictions detrimental to the temporal turn. First, scholars incoherently denounce timeless visions of politics. Second, attacks on linear time obscure a variety of hegemonic temporalities and reproduce assumptions that critics wish to challenge. Third, advocates of heterotemporality amass woolly alternatives, foreclosing analysis and dialogue. Finally, times of rupture recapitulate a liberal-idealism that depoliticises temporal enquiry just when it could be pushing the politics of time further. These habits hamstring conceptual development and critical IR¡¯s ability to contribute distinctive perspectives to a field growing increasingly interested in time. To redress this, the paper identifies and sharpens critical IR¡¯s temporal tensions, shows how they encourage particular visions of time and politics, and suggests initial steps towards maximising the critical potential of time
%K time
%K temporality
%K critical international relations
%K temps
%K temporalit¨¦
%K th¨¦ories critiques des relations internationales
%K tiempo
%K temporalidad
%K teor¨ªas cr¨ªticas de las relaciones internacionales
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305829818771349