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: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354659
• ISBN-10: 0822354659
• Artikelnr.: 38141274

Autorenporträt

Sarah Sharma

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