Title: Democracy and Time
Subtitle: Chronopower, Democracy, and the Politics of Time
Subject Classification:  Politics and Government, Philosophy, Society and Culture  
BIC Classification: JP, HP, JH
BISAC Classification: POL007000, PHI019000, SOC026000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Aug 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-670-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-671-3

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Description

This study places time and temporality at the center of democratic politics, as a theory and praxis of political autonomy in the form of self-rule of the demos, and the exercise of popular power by collective decision-making. Based on sociological accounts of time and the phenomenon of power, the author argues that time and power are closely intertwined. Power is implicated in socially formulated and institutionalized forms of time, while simultaneously, these forms shape temporal parameters of power across political and social domains. As such, the time-power relationship, or chronopower, is the subject of the politics of time as a domain of the contestation and struggles by various political, social, and economic entities over the control of time.

The book shows how time and temporality and their particular articulations by various actors, shape and inform the perception and normative value of democracy. Temporal autonomy, or the power of the demos to control the temporal parameters of the collective self-rule, and the view of time as a political subject of the democratic struggle, are essential to the future survival of democracy.

The book takes the distinctive view of seeing time as a specifically social construct which can be politically manipulated by different social entities and actors. It specifically relates such processes to the theoretical articulation of democracy and its critiques, which limit and curb its political potential.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr. Mykolas Gudelis is a researcher in the Department of Politics, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA

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