ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the co-authors argue for the need to develop greater awareness of how feminist knowledge production is situated, not only in an uneven geopolitical terrain but also within a politics of time. Chronopolitics is deeply entangled with geopolitics, and questions of feminist locations and positionings thus have a temporal as well as a spatial dimension. Jacobsen and Karlsen draw upon their own ethnographic research to reflect upon how their positioning as anthropologists and feminist researchers is relationally constituted in the encounter with their interlocutors within intersecting power structures. Engaging with debates on temporal othering and coevalness, they highlight some dilemmas related to temporal sharedness and difference that they encountered in their research among irregularized migrants in Norway and France. In conclusion, it is argued that a critique of temporal othering needs to be combined with an awareness of how multiple and uneven temporal relations shape the production of knowledge. Recognizing and reflecting upon the interdependence of differentially lived time, the authors emphasize how time, like space, is an always-already intersecting form of social difference and encourage further reflections upon the meanings of geopolitical and chronopolitical locations and positionings in ethnographic feminist research.
