In The Meantime: Temporality And Cultural Politics

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In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics

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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 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.

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AuthorSharma, Sarah
Bindingpaperback
Languageenglish
Edition
ISBN-10822354772
ISBN-1397808212
Publisher
Publication Year2014-02-07T00:00:01Z

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