Time work : studies of temporal agency / edited by Michael Flaherty [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flaherty, Michael, editor.

Meinert, Lotte, editor.

Dalsgard, Anne Line, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2020.

Summary:

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents. They come to the overall conclusion that people construct their own circumstances with the intention to modify their experience of time.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Part I. Beginnings, Concepts, and Questions

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Lathe of Time: Some Principles of Temporal Agency

Part II. Temporal Afflictions

Chapter 2. Repetition Work: Healing Spirits and Trauma in the Churches of Northern Uganda

Chapter 3. ADHD and Temporal Experiences: Struggling for Synchronization

Part III. The Politics of Time

Chapter 4. Hacking Time and Looping Temporalities in the Identifi cation of the Adult “Living Disappeared” in Argentina

Chapter 5. Temporal Front and Back Stages: Time Work as Resistance

Part IV. Spirituality and Atheism as Temporal Agency

Chapter 6. Se Deus Quiser: Catholicism as Time Work among the Xukuru of Pernambuco

Chapter 7. “It Is Just Doing the Motion”: Atheist Time Work in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan

Part V. Reinventing the Past, Present, and Future

Chapter 8. Inventing New Time: Time Work in the Grief Practices of Bereaved Parents

Chapter 9. Now Is Not: Future Anteriority and a Georgian in Russia

Part VI. Time and Deprivation

Chapter 10. The Work of Waiting: Boredom, Teatime, and Future-Making in Niger

Chapter 11. Balancing Blood Sugar: Fasting, Feeling, and Time Work during the Egyptian Ramadan

Afterword. A “Temporal Novel” Inspired by the Concept of Time Work

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-229-9

1-78920-705-3

OCLC:

1155315936