Telling Time in Khanke

Now that the spaces and places of home have been discussed in the previous chapter, I continue toward into time, toward the actions conducted in those spaces. For action (and thus, agency) to take place, time is a required variable. Simon Turner writes that, ‘[i]n the permanently temporary time of the camp, imagining a future, planning one’s life trajectory and acting accordingly in the present become seriously challenged.’475 The present is amorphous. The past is ‘real’ and the future is hopeful, but the present feels never-ending. In considering time and camps of the displaced, Cathrine Brun writes that ‘we need to move away from understanding protracted displacement as static and toward a notion of it as fluid.