The coloniality of age: Navigating the chronopolitics of Black childhood
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Decolonisation and racial justice are vital for Black, Indigenous, and other colonised peoples. The coloniality of age framework reveals how Black childhood is positioned as an age with no future, challenging temporal limits imposed by coloniality.
Area Of Science
- Critical race theory
- Postcolonial studies
- Sociology of race and time
Background
- Decolonisation and racial justice are critical for Black, Indigenous, and other colonised peoples.
- Existing frameworks often dismiss these demands as unrealistic or out-of-time.
- The concept of the 'coloniality of time' has been explored, but the specific temporal dimensions of racialisation require further examination.
Purpose Of The Study
- Introduce the 'coloniality of age' as a theoretical framework to analyse racialised time.
- Challenge the dismissal of decolonisation and racial justice demands by revealing their temporal dimensions.
- Explore how Black childhood is positioned within colonial temporal structures and how this can be reframed.
Main Methods
- Develop the 'coloniality of age' framework, building on the 'coloniality of time'.
- Analyse racialised time through the concepts of 'tempus nullius' (uninhabited time) and the paternalistic paradigm.
- Examine counter-narratives of young Black people regarding their experiences of Black childhood.
Main Results
- The coloniality of age framework identifies 'tempus nullius' and the paternalistic paradigm as mechanisms that deny Black peoples historical agency.
- Black childhood is conceptualised as an 'age with no future' within colonial temporal limits.
- Young Black peoples' counter-narratives ('stuck,' 'growing up,' 'pace' of racism, 'regressing') demonstrate resistance to these temporal limits.
Conclusions
- The coloniality of age framework reveals how coloniality imposes temporal limits on Black existence.
- Black children's counter-narratives actively challenge and unsettle these imposed temporal limits.
- Black childhood can be reframed as a site of 'otherwise futures' that extend beyond colonial temporal constraints.
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