Time Work : : Studies of Temporal Agency / / ed. by Michael G. Flaherty, Anne Line Dalsgård, Lotte Meinert.

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents. They come to t...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Part I. Beginnings, Concepts, and Questions --
Introduction --
Chapter 1. The Lathe of Time: Some Principles of Temporal Agency --
Part II. Temporal Afflictions --
Chapter 2. Repetition Work: Healing Spirits and Trauma in the Churches of Northern Uganda --
Chapter 3. ADHD and Temporal Experiences: Struggling for Synchronization --
Part III. The Politics of Time --
Chapter 4. Hacking Time and Looping Temporalities in the Identifi cation of the Adult “Living Disappeared” in Argentina --
Chapter 5. Temporal Front and Back Stages: Time Work as Resistance --
Part IV. Spirituality and Atheism as Temporal Agency --
Chapter 6. Se Deus Quiser: Catholicism as Time Work among the Xukuru of Pernambuco --
Chapter 7. “It Is Just Doing the Motion”: Atheist Time Work in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan --
Part V. Reinventing the Past, Present, and Future --
Chapter 8. Inventing New Time: Time Work in the Grief Practices of Bereaved Parents --
Chapter 9. Now Is Not: Future Anteriority and a Georgian in Russia --
Part VI. Time and Deprivation --
Chapter 10. The Work of Waiting: Boredom, Teatime, and Future-Making in Niger --
Chapter 11. Balancing Blood Sugar: Fasting, Feeling, and Time Work during the Egyptian Ramadan --
Afterword. A “Temporal Novel” Inspired by the Concept of Time Work --
Index
Summary:Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents. They come to the overall conclusion that people construct their own circumstances with the intention to modify their experience of time.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781789207057
9783110997699
DOI:10.1515/9781789207057?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Michael G. Flaherty, Anne Line Dalsgård, Lotte Meinert.