In contrast to the measurable and calculated notion of time/chronology, temporality is concerned with the way in which a sequence of events, a kind of history, is physically experienced by those who live through them or experience them. Thus the passing of time is treated not as a neutral dimension but rather as being constituted by social practices (T. Darvill 2002). Academic geographers do not express—or do not want to express—this concept very clearly: ‘time and space do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term’ (J. May and N. Thrift 2001); ‘the predominant poststructuralist understanding of temporality is in terms of a series of successive moments of pure contingency, tied together by nothing other than the force of an imposed convention or act of vitalistic will’ (Barnett (2004) Pol. Geog. 23, 5); ‘to take on board the coevality of space is to refuse that flipping of the imaginative eye from modernist singular temporality to postmodern instantaneity’ (Massey in O. Eliasson 2003), and Brown (2007) Canad. Geogr./Géogr. canad. 51, 1 writes of ‘the implicit linear temporality of the two-dimensional planes that define the Western agricultural landscape’.