Based on ethnographic research with taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements, and others, Sarah Sharma argues that people's relations to labor shape their experiences of time.
Based on ethnographic research with taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements, and others, Sarah Sharma argues that people's relations to labor shape their experiences of time.
Sarah Sharma is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Tempo Tantrums: Speed and the Cultural Politics of Time 1 1. Jet-Lag Luxury: The Architecture of Time Maintenance 27 2. Temporal Labor and the Taxicab: Maintaining the Time of Others 55 3. Dharma at the Desk: Recalibrating the Sedentary Worker 81 4. Slow Space: Another Pace and Time 108 Conclusion. Toward a Temporal Public 137 Notes 151 Bibliography 177 Index 187
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Tempo Tantrums: Speed and the Cultural Politics of Time 1 1. Jet-Lag Luxury: The Architecture of Time Maintenance 27 2. Temporal Labor and the Taxicab: Maintaining the Time of Others 55 3. Dharma at the Desk: Recalibrating the Sedentary Worker 81 4. Slow Space: Another Pace and Time 108 Conclusion. Toward a Temporal Public 137 Notes 151 Bibliography 177 Index 187
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