Communicating temporalities: The Orientalist unconscious, the
European migrant crisis, and the time of the Other

J 2020

Communicating temporalities: The Orientalist unconscious, the European migrant crisis, and the time of the Other

DOBOŠ, Pavel

Basic information

Original name

Communicating temporalities: The Orientalist unconscious, the European migrant crisis, and the time of the Other

Authors

DOBOŠ, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Political Geography, Oxford, Elsevier, 2020, 0962-6298

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Field of Study

50701 Cultural and economic geography

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.660

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00115419

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102176

UT WoS

000539371200003

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85080052101

Keywords in English

Orientalism; imaginative geographies; chronopolitics; temporality; migrant crisis; Czech Republic; communication geography; Facebook

Abstract

In the original language

The paper analyses communication about the European migrant crisis in East-Central Europe, particularly in the Czech Republic, as it was happening on the Facebook platform. In discussions amongst Czechs, the collective Orientalist unconscious shapes what imaginative geographies are communicated, and how. The paper argues for a coupling of the critique of Orientalist imaginative geographies and Deleuzean critique of the pointillistic chronological time. Both, imaginative geographies and the chronological time, acknowledge difference only as the difference from the Same. In the analysed communication, imaginative geographies draw on several notions of temporality that depend on the chronological time. These are the single timeline of progress, tunnels of time, movement towards apocalypse, and repetition of the past. They transform African and Middle-Eastern imaginative geographies and understandings of people migrating from these spaces. They also compose an imaginative geography of Western Europe which collapses under the surge of migrants. It provokes an irreconcilableness between the anti-immigration and pro-migration attitudes of discussants as it leads to emplacing the other attitudinal side in the past time. Therefore, the paper calls for an ethics of the event and the need to acknowledge the heterogeneity of diverse temporalities and accidentality of a present event.

Links

MUNI/A/1356/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Výzkum proměn geografických procesů a vztahů v prostoru a čase (Acronym: Progeo)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Cite

DOBOŠ, Pavel. Communicating temporalities: The Orientalist unconscious, the European migrant crisis, and the time of the Other. Political Geography. Oxford: Elsevier, 2020, vol. 80, June 2020, p. 1-10. ISSN 0962-6298. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102176.

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DOBOŠ, Pavel. Communicating temporalities: The Orientalist unconscious, the European migrant crisis, and the time of the Other. \textit{Political Geography}. Oxford: Elsevier, 2020, vol.~80, June 2020, p.~1-10. ISSN~0962-6298. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102176.

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