What is it about?
Understanding the dimension of 'time' in relation to non-government organisations (NGOs) working in development
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Why is it important?
It explains how history gets forgotten, and continuities get disrupted, leading to the risk that useful lessons are not learned.
Perspectives
Modern neoliberal societies are obsessed with the soundbites and newsfeeds, and these erase a sense of history and continuity. We need to challenge this.
David Lewis
London School of Economics and Political Science
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This page is a summary of: Abandoned pasts, disappearing futures: Further reflections on multiple temporalities in studying non-governmental organisation worlds, Critique of Anthropology, December 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0308275x15617304.
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