Time, Globalization and Human Experience (eBook, ePUB)

Interdisciplinary Explorations
Redaktion: Huebener, Paul; Zhou, Yanqiu Rachel; Stockdale, Liam; Porter, Tony; O'Brien, Susie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection considers how time shapes globalization, and how globalization affects our experience of time, as manifested across a variety of economic, political, cultural, and environmental contexts. Topics covered include emerging infectious diseases, temporal sovereignty, worker exploitation and resistance, chronobiology, energy politics, activism and hope, and literary and cinematic representations of counter-temporalities, offering a rich, varied account of global time. This book will interest students and researchers from a range of disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, globalization, literary studies, political science and IR, social theory, and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315522111
• Artikelnr.: 47134364

Autorenporträt

Paul Huebener is an Assistant Professor of English in the Centre for Humanities at Athabasca University, Canada. Susie O'Brien is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Tony Porter is Professor of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada. Liam Stockdale is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching at McMaster University, Canada. Yanqiu Rachel Zhou is an Associate Professor at the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition and the School of Social Work, McMaster University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
[Paul Huebener, Susie O'Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, and Yanqiu
Rachel Zhou]
2. Time and Sovereignty in the Neoliberal Global Hegemony
[Robert Hassan]
3. Time, Worker Exploitation and Global Capitalism
[Wayne Hope]
4. Closing the Loop on Financialization and Scenario Planning
[Simon Orpana]
5. Imagined Futures and Exceptional Presents: A Conceptual Critique of
Preemptive Security]
[Liam Stockdale]
6. While the West Sleeps
[Kevin Birth]
7. Accelerated contagion and response: Understanding the relationships
among globalization, time, and disease
[Yanqiu Rachel Zhou and William D. Coleman]
8. The Inertia of Energy: Pipelines and Temporal Politics
[Brent Ryan Bellamy]
9. Yugoslavism: History, Temporality, and the Search for Alternative Modes
of Political Critique
[Petra Rethmann]
10. The Rhythms of the Global
[Adam Barrows]
11. Checked Baggage: An Afterward for Time and Globalization
[Sarah Sharma]