In the Meantime Temporality and Cultural Politics

Name: In the Meantime Temporality and Cultural Politics
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ISBN: 9780822354772

ISBN-10: 0822354772

ISBN-13: 9780822354772

Edition: 2014

Authors: Sarah Sharma

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The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those who decry it. Sarah Sharma engages with that assumption in this sophisticated critical inquiry into the temporalities of everyday life. Sharma conducted ethnographic research among individuals whose jobs or avocations involve a persistent focus on time: taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, corporate yoga instructors, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements. Based on that research, she develops the concept of "power-chronography" to make visible the entangled and uneven…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 2/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English