"Decolonial and Indigenous critiques of Eurocentric, linear time have laid important groundwork by challenging the idea of time as universally progressive (e.g. Andreotti et al.,
Citation2017; Mignolo,
Citation2011; Rifkin, 2017; Smith,
Citation1999). Still, they do not always treat temporality as a central analytic or deeply examine how standardized clock time functions as a colonial tool (recent exceptions are Hunfeld,
Citation2022; Phillips,
Citation2025). Decolonial chronopolitics extends these literatures by identifying the coloniality of time as a core structuring logic. It offers a distinct framework to rethink time and knowledge and to reimagine transformation, particularly within education. Decolonial chronopolitics functions both as a
temporal
lens for critique and as an
emerging framework for reimagining educational practices, centering marginalized temporalities and histories. It embodies three tenets."
Applied universally
, this view elevated Whiteness as the future and cast Indigenous peoples as stagnant or ‘backward’ (Nanni,
Citation2012). Western mechanical clocks in the 17th and 18th centuries marked a shift in how time was understood. Time became measurable and efficiency-driven, aligning with industrial capitalism and colonial governance (Nanni,
Citation2012).
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RA Shahjahan
Michigan Jeet. No shit. He thinks that not letting browns show up half an hour late to a work meeting is... well it means that you're elevating Whiteness. Get the fuck out of here.
