Keeping you post-ed: Space-time regimes, metaphors, and post-apartheid

Societies that have undergone systemic change are characterized as ‘post’—post-socialist, post-colonial, etc.—to encapsulate the impact past still has on their structure and functioning. Research these societies therefore tended to adopt a mostly temporal approach, investigating tension between continuity change. Using example of post-apartheid South Africa, I make case for more balanced approach post situations by including space equally valuable. draw my theoretical inspiration from Hartog’s notion regimes historicity Massey’s space-time argue we should investigate regimes. show regime entanglement, often passéist, with blurred boundaries messy, place-bound experiences time, characterizes situations. Finally, using Africa empirical grounding, offer set metaphors describe analyze concrete places this entangled, produces.