{"product_id":"time-work-studies-of-temporal-agency-9781789207040","title":"Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tExamining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…an eclectic and enthralling collection of ethnographic studies…[that] is well structured and beautifully written. As the afterword notes, the book almost reads like a novel, with captivating ethnographic stories on themes ranging from the mundane to the spiritual. The variety of cultures covered—from Canada to Brazil to Kyrgyzstan—attests to an important aspect of time work: it’s universal. We all need time, and we all need to work on our time.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Contemporary Sociology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book is a highly valuable and stimulating contribution to any social scientists interested in time. As any good scholarship, it certainly opens up conductive lines of inquiry to be further addressed in social studies of time. Furthermore, the chapters are very fluently written, well-presented, and highly readable, which, among other things, testify to the excellent work of the book’s editors.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Symbolic Interaction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Overall, the series of chapters constitutes a wide-ranging and provocative expansion of the initial framing of the concept of timework and details the bases in ethnographical evidence for its contemporary development. In the process, some highly relevant and nuanced insights emerge from this wider-scoped timework research, in terms of its relevance to and import for contemporary discourses about human agency in a wide range of settings. The editors weave these thematic sets of contributions into a compelling narrative of temporal agency as a deeply personal yet culturally situated and diverse family of activities with a universal relevance that is deserving of further social scientific inquiry.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Kronoscope\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The central theme of this book is crucial to our understanding of the present. The conceptual themes of the chapters are very complementary and detailed … an inspiration for study and for readers’ own research. Each is well written, and warmly appreciative of local wisdom.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Jane Guyer\u003c\/strong\u003e, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[This book] deals with issues of time, and particularly of people's attempts to manipulate temporal experience. In that way it speaks to a topic that has always been somewhat present in the social sciences, but that only relatively recently sees sustained and in-depth attention.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Stef Jansen\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Manchester\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: BEGINNINGS, CONCEPTS, AND QUESTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael G. Flaherty, Anne Line Dalsgård, and Lotte Meinert\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Lathe of Time: Some Principles of Temporal Agency\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael G. Flaherty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: TEMPORAL AFFLICTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Repetition Work: Healing Spirits and Trauma in the Churches of Northern Uganda\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLars Williams and Lotte Meinert\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eADHD and Temporal Experiences: Struggling for Synchronization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMikka Nielsen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: THE POLITICS OF TIME\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hacking Time and Looping Temporalities in the Identification of the Adult “Living Disappeared” in Argentina\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNoa Vaisman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Temporal Front and Back Stages: Time Work as Resistance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLisa-Jo K. van den Scott\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: SPIRITUALITY AND ATHEISM AS TEMPORAL AGENCY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSe Deus Quiser\u003c\/em\u003e: Catholicism as Time Work among the Xukuru of Pernambuco\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClarissa Martins Lima\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e “It Is Just Doing the Motion”: Atheist Time Work in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaria Louw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART V: REINVENTING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Inventing New Time: Time Work in the Grief Practices of Bereaved Parents\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Now Is Not: Future Anteriority and a Georgian in Russia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Demant Frederiksen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART VI: TIME AND DEPRIVATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Work of Waiting: Boredom, Teatime, and Future-Making in Niger\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdeline Masquelier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Balancing Blood Sugar: Fasting, Feeling, and Time Work During the Egyptian Ramadan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMille Kjærgaard Thorsen and Anne Line Dalsgård\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCarmen Leccardi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042560966999,"sku":"9781789207040","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789207040.jpg?v=1750954649","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/time-work-studies-of-temporal-agency-9781789207040","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}