Abstract
Waiting, the title of Vincent Crapanzano’s (1985) influential ethnography of white South Africa in the dying days of apartheid employs a single word to characterize this period in the country’s history. That Crapanzano (1985) chooses a signifier that qualifies the experience of time in invoking this period, is telling. It suggests that the myriad social and political complexities of a given era can effectively be encapsulated in this way, that is, precisely in terms of a relation to time. His choice proves instructive for my concerns here, which revolve around how temporality should be seen as a crucial dimension in Psychosocial Studies.
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Hook, D. (2015). Indefinite Delay: On (Post)Apartheid Temporality. In: Frosh, S. (eds) Psychosocial Imaginaries. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388186_3
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