Sarah Sharma

In the Meantime

Temporality and Cultural Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354772
• ISBN-10: 0822354772
• Artikelnr.: 38130315

Autorenporträt

Sarah Sharma is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

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