The right to the future and chrono-logics otherwise: Resisting governmentality’s temporal conduct

This paper attends to differing praxes of futurity circulating in Colombia, both in dominant and subaltern forms. It first considers temporality as an apparatus of governmentality, <em>raison d&rsquo;&eacute;tat</em>, and settler colonial logics of violence deployed in the servic...

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Main Author: Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2020-12-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1059
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Summary:This paper attends to differing praxes of futurity circulating in Colombia, both in dominant and subaltern forms. It first considers temporality as an apparatus of governmentality, <em>raison d&rsquo;&eacute;tat</em>, and settler colonial logics of violence deployed in the service of late liberalism, capitalist endeavor, and the so-called &ldquo;peace dividend.&rdquo; In contrast, it elaborates two distinct rights claims that counter official state claims on the future: the principle of the right to a distinct vision of the future in Colombia&rsquo;s black Pacific social movement; and the legal claim of the right of future generations in a historic 2018 lawsuit brought against the government by several youth from diverse regions across the country. These claims pose what I name as a &ldquo;chrono-logics&rdquo; otherwise &ndash; temporal alterities that refuse the logics of settler colonial temporality and insist on an ecology of relations that pursue the survival and flourishing of diverse lifeworlds and futures.<br /><br /> Este art&iacute;culo se ocupa de diferentes praxis de futuridad que circulan en Colombia, tanto en formas dominantes como subalternas. En primer lugar, toma en consideraci&oacute;n la temporalidad como un aparato de la gubernamentalidad, la raz&oacute;n de Estado, y las l&oacute;gicas de violencia del colonialismo que se despliegan al servicio del liberalismo tard&iacute;o, el empe&ntilde;o capitalista y el as&iacute; denominado &ldquo;dividendo de la paz&rdquo;. Elaboramos dos reivindicaciones de derechos que contradicen las proclamas estatales oficiales sobre el futuro: el principio del derecho a una visi&oacute;n distinta del futuro en el movimiento social negro pac&iacute;fico de Colombia; y la pretensi&oacute;n jur&iacute;dica del derecho de las generaciones venideras en una demanda judicial hist&oacute;rica de 2018 que interpusieron j&oacute;venes de diversas regiones del pa&iacute;s contra el gobierno. Estas reivindicaciones plantean lo que denomino una &ldquo;crono-log&iacute;a&rdquo; de otra manera &ndash; alteridades temporales que rechazan la l&oacute;gica de la temporalidad colonialista y que insisten en una ecolog&iacute;a de relaciones que persiguen la supervivencia y el florecimiento de diversos mundos y futuros.<br /><strong><br /> Available from: </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1051" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1051</a>
ISSN:2079-5971