Revolution's tragic ends : temporal dimensions of political action -- Stranded in the present : the ruins of time -- Generations of memory : the work of mourning -- Evading truths : the rhetoric of transitional justice
Summary
Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of postcolonial temporality. David Scott argues that the palpable sense of the present as time stalled, without hope for emancipatory futures, has had far-reaching effects on how we think about justice and the nature of political action
