In the meantime : temporality and cultural politics / Sarah Sharma

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharma, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Popular culture--Effect of technological innovations on.

Popular culture.

Culture and globalization.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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 configures their experience of time, she argues that both "speed-up" and "slow-down" often function as a form of biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary global capitalism.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Tempo tantrums: Speed and the cultural politics of time

1 Jet-lag luxury: The architecture of time maintenance

2 Temporal labor and the taxicab: Maintaining the time of others

3 Dharma at the desk: Recalibrating the sedentary worker

4 Slow space: Another pace and time

Conclusion. Toward a temporal public.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822378334 (electronic book)

9780822378334

0822378337

OCLC:

1125477097