In the meantime : temporality and cultural politics / Sarah Sharma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharma, Sarah, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Popular culture--Effect of technological innovations on.

Popular culture.

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 politics of temporality. Focusing on how people's different relationships to labor configure their experience of time, she argues that both "speed up" and "slow down" often function as a form of bio-political social control necessary to contemporary global capitalism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Tempo Tantrums : Speed and the Cultural Politics of Time

Jet-Lag Luxury : The Architecture of Time Maintenance

Temporal Labor and the Taxicab : Maintaining the Time of Others

Dharma at the Desk : Recalibrating the Sedentary Worker

Slow Space : Another Pace and Time

Toward a Temporal Public.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.

ISBN:

9780822354659

0822354659

9780822354772

0822354772

OCLC:

842209173