Tourists enter a suspended past while refugees enter a suspended future

Evidence

The refugee’s temporal experience, however, is quite different: the perilous passage through a time zone dedicated to tourists and animals doubles as a portal, not into a suspended past, but into a suspended future. These two groups of transients from opposite ends of the spectrum of voluntary and involuntary mobility pass each other like ships in the night, freighted with radically different hopes, radically different experiences of national park space-time, and radically different visions of what constitutes escape. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 557

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the chapter’s core contrast: eco-archaic suspension of the past vs. politically-imposed suspension of the future.
• XREF: connects to: Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1068

Broader Connections

• Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. #corroborates (0.85) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1068