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The chronopolitics of the ‘Left Behind’: Presentism, populism, and Global Britain Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kirsten Forkert, Zaki Nahaboo
This article examines the “Left Behind” as a temporal construct and its political uses. In the UK, the “Left Behind” is predominantly discussed as a group of people sharing a similar geographical locale, White identity, and deprivation. Political parties and commentators have been integral to constructing this White class as a deserving poor and voting bloc, who have not reaped the benefits of economic
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‘View from the window’: On time, politics and domestics during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Neda Genova
The present article aims to contribute to theorisations of the politics of time through a detailed engagement with techno-aesthetic strategies of temporal synchronisation and heterogeneisation of everyday rhythms during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The exploration focuses on practices of mediatisation of domestic spaces, in particular by examining photographs posted on the Bulgarian-language
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Religio-temporal framing and religio-social synchronization in family discourse in Saudi Arabia Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Iman A. Almulla
Studies on time and timing in language often adopt psychological or cognitive perspectives. This work aims to study the relationship between time, religion, and family discourse. An interactional sociolinguistic approach was used to collect data from spontaneous family interactions to study how religious activities govern how family members in Saudi Arabia organize their day and simultaneously how
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Instantaneous nostalgia for the future: 10,000 postcards for 2042 Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Katharina Niemeyer, Magali Uhl
This article focuses on analogue postcards as a communicative and artistic tool for potentially engaging nostalgically with the past, present, and future. It poses questions about the experience of time and place in a specific setting (the city of Montreal, Canada), as well as in a specific project that looks at cultural mediation in public spaces. During the summer of 2017, Comptoir public, an organization
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Library music as a matter of time Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Júlia Durand
The industry of library music (pre-existing pieces that can be licensed for use in media) has grown considerably in the past two decades with its transition to a digital medium. A rising number of composers rely on this music as a source of income, along with audiovisual creators who increasingly use it in their productions. This expansion has accentuated a fundamental aspect of library music: the
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Living temporality: Speculative engagements with elderly people on bioscience and the body Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Lotta Hautamäki, Mianna Meskus
This article reports on speculative engagements in group conversations with elderly citizens on the biomedical possibilities of modifying aging in the future. The participants oriented themselves towards the future of aging through memories and present embodied perceptions. To constrict the analysis, we draw on Isabelle Stengers’ speculative thinking and, to conceptualize the multiplicity of temporalities
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The critical temporalities of serial migration and family social reproduction in Southeast Asia Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam, Bittiandra Chand Somaiah, Kristel Anne Fernandez Acedera
The prevailing neoliberal labour migration regime in Asia is underpinned by principles of enforced transience: the overwhelming majority of migrants – particularly those seeking low-skilled, low-wa...
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“Participate or Perish”: Reckoning with the time bind of graduate student life Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Susie O’Brien
This article revisits a graduate course I taught between 2005 and 2014, ENGLISH 779--The Times We Live In, in light of the temporal stresses of graduate student life. Thinking with Donald C. Goelln...
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Simmel’s sociology of time: On temporal coordination and acceleration Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Cassiopea Staudacher
Time plays an integral role in understanding how the social is possible. However, most discussions of sociological classical thinkers—such as Georg Simmel—remain starkly underexplored in terms of t...
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Riders in app time: Exploring the temporal experiences of food delivery platform work Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Katrine Duus, Maja Hojer Bruun, Anne Line Dalsgård
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork among bicycle food delivery riders in Brussels who worked through the digital platform Deliveroo. The article engages the riders’ specific temporal e...
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‘You just get used to waiting’: Exploring the temporal dimensions of in-country educational experiences Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Kate Naidu
This article explores the temporal dimensions of in-country educational experiences in relation to their potential to contribute to the development of intercultural capacities. Given trends in high...
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Teaching the sociology of time in a time of disruption (a strike and a pandemic) Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Dawn Lyon
This short article shares the innovative pedagogic practices I explored and developed to nurture temporal reflexivity in the classroom to engage students in the study of the sociology of time in th...
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Reducing weekly working hours: Temporal strategies and changes in the organization and experiences of work-Results from a qualitative study of a 30-hour workweek experiment Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Francisca Mullens, Ignace Glorieux
In 2019, Femma Wereldvrouwen, a Belgian women’s organization experimented with a 30-hour workweek on organizational level. All full-time employees reduced their weekly working hours from 36, 34, or...
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“I don’t want to do time,I want to save it”: Carcerality of time and Black temporal resistance Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Corey J Miles
The criminalization of Blackness has led to premature death, high incarceration rates, and psychological stress, all of which impact Black people’s temporal horizons. Working in conversation with s...
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Working every weekend: The paradox of time for insecurely employed academics Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Kathleen Smithers, Nerida Spina, Jess Harris, Sarah Gurr
Wage theft claims against Australian universities have raised awareness of the substantial proportion of academics who are precariously employed and underpaid. The COVID-19 global pandemic has furt...
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“Time is not time is not time”: A feminist ecological approach to clock time, process time, and care responsibilities Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Andrea Doucet
Over the past half century, time-use studies have become a leading method for researching unpaid care work, especially in the multidisciplinary field of gender divisions of household work and care ...
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Spatiotemporal accessibility by public transport and time wealth: Insights from two peripheral neighbourhoods in Malmö, Sweden Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Chiara Vitrano, Linnea Mellquist
This paper contributes to the understanding of spatiotemporal accessibility inequalities by exploring how the current public transport (PT) provision affects the time wealth of PT users living in t...
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Teaching time; Disrupting common sense Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Kevin Birth
In my course “Time” I set out to disrupt the connection between cognitive tools used to represent time (clocks and calendars) and experiences of time. This article documents some of the topics and ...
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Beyond the clock: Rethinking the meaning of unpaid childcare in the U.S. Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Nancy Folbre
Can parental childcare be described as productive work? If so, is this work reducible to the specific physical activities designated in most time use surveys, or does it include more diffuse respon...
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Syrians’ experiences of waiting and temporality in Turkey: Gendered reconceptualisations of time, space and refugee identity Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Ayşecan Terzioglu
In recent years, the number of refugees has increased considerably throughout the world, and the difficulties they experience have become more visible in political and social science research. Refu...
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Becoming “intimate” with the present moment: Mindfulness and the question of temporality Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Nis L Primdahl
Being in the present moment is a key element in most widespread definitions of modern mindfulness. A claim about temporality can thus be said to lie at the core of mindfulness, in which some ways o...
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Temporalities of vulnerability: Unemployment tactics during the Spanish crisis Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Álvaro Briales
In this paper I analyse the processes of vulnerabilisation related to unemployment, based on the case of Spain in the period 2010–2020. I conceptualise unemployment time as empty time that unemploy...
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Post-crisis imaginaries in the time of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Renae Fomiatti, Adrian Farrugia, Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Michael Edwards, Carla Treloar
Until the recent introduction of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications, the only available hepatitis C treatments were lengthy and onerous interferon-based therapies, with relatively weak succe...
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Sea ice out of time: Reckoning with environmental change Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Julianne Yip
In September 2007, Arctic sea ice plummeted to a shocking record minimum at the time. The amount of ice lost that summer was equal to that lost over the previous 25 years. As Arctic sea ice escapes...
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Can we teach undergraduates the history of time? Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Justin T. Clark
This essay examines the author’s experience since 2018 in developing and teaching a third-year undergraduate course on the history of time at a Singapore university, for students specializing in Ea...
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Bias in estimated working hours in time diary research: The effect of cyclical work time patterns on postponing designated registration days Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Petrus te Braak, Theun Pieter van Tienoven, Joeri Minnen, Ignace Glorieux
Due to the diversification and fragmentation of working time arrangements, the organisation of working weeks now differ substantially from each other. To account for week-to-week variability in wor...
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Living in the wrong time zone: Elevated risk of traffic fatalities in eccentric time localities Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Jeffery Gentry, Jayson Evaniuck, Thanchira Suriyamongkol, Ivana Mali
Chronobiology research has uncovered a host of maladies linked to social jetlag (SJL), the sleep-disrupting disconnect between solar time and social time. This interdisciplinary study applies chron...
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Who’s cooking tonight? A time-use study of coupled adults in Toronto, Canada Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Bochu Liu, Michael J Widener, Lindsey G Smith, Steven Farber, Dionne Gesink, Leia M Minaker, Zachary Patterson, Kristian Larsen, Jason Gilliland
Understanding how coupled adults arrange food-related labor in relation to their daily time allocation is of great importance because different arrangements may have implications for diet-related h...
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Temporality in epistemic justice Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Govert Valkenburg
Democracy requires some sort of exchange of knowledge between holders of different knowledge positions. The concept of epistemic justice brings the ability to know and the right to be recognised as...
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Synchronization of the Corona Crisis Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Markus Lundström
Crisis is a conceptual tool for synchronizing different experiences of time. It is operative in notions of the Financial Crisis, the Crisis of Democracy, the Climate Crisis—and the Corona Crisis. T...
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Sustainability in times of disruption: Engaging with near and distant futures in practices of food entrepreneurship Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Koen van der Gaast, Eveline van Leeuwen, Sigrid Wertheim-Heck
The sustainability transformation of the food system involves imagining a sustainable future whilst functioning within the current unsustainable food system. Some argue there is a difference between the goal-oriented and comfort seeking form in which the near future is engaged, and the reflexive, imaginary way in which the distant future is engaged. This begs the question, how is engagement with near
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Capital flows, itinerant laborers, and time: A revision of Thompson’s thesis of time and work discipline Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Kevin K Birth
E. P. Thompson’s classic article “Time and Work-Discipline in Industrial Capitalism,” gives an incomplete picture of the transition to the time consciousness in industrial capitalism. This is for two reasons. First, by not understanding time logics of pre-industrial societies and viewing such logics as “irregular,” Thompson was unable to understand how wages were paid, and workers disciplined in a
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In their own time: Refugee healthcare professionals’ attempts at temporal re-appropriation Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Katarina Mozetič
Scholarship on refugee labour market participation regularly alludes to the temporal dimension of the process, yet explicit engagement with it remains limited. I argue that researching the temporalities of refugee employment re-entry is valuable as it discerns the recursive interrelation between social structure and individual agency that advances or curbs the labour market trajectories of refugees
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Mobile phones and the experience of time: New perspectives from a deprivation study of teenagers Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Hananel Rosenberg, Menahem Blondheim, Chen Sabag-Ben Porat
A number of studies have sought to understand how mobile phones affect time practices, and beyond them, the experience of time in users’ daily lives. This article is a further effort in that direction, employing the deprivation study method. We conducted a field study of 80 adolescents, or “cellular natives,” separating them from their cellphones for 1 week. The findings indicate that the cellphone’s
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Time Today Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Michelle Bastian, Robert Hassan, Helge Jordheim
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of Time & Society. In that first issue, Barbara Adam, its founding editor, editorialised that the motivation behind the journal was to create a platform that would contribute to the dissolution of the constraining disciplinary boundaries in contemporary thought realms. The solvent for this intellectual process was time. Adam wrote a quite remarkable tour
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Ruminating on the past may be bad for you, or is it? Implications of past negative time perspective on job-related stress Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Sharon Glazer, Laina N Serrer, Andrei Ion
Past negative time perspective (PNTP), characterized by rumination on painful past experiences, is generally considered harmful to a person’s well-being. However, there is reason to suspect that a PNTP may not make matters worse if a high PNTP is consistent with culture, as in the case of India. Drawing on the person–culture matching hypothesis, we test the moderating effects of PNTP on the relationship
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Time as an anchor Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Alexis McCrossen
The title of the journal whose 30th anniversary this essay celebrates, Time & Society, violates two of my cardinal rules for writing: first, only use “and” in lists, not as a conjunction, and, second, write out all words, do not use symbols. The elegance of the appearance of the ampersand in the title exempts it from my second rule, but what of the first rule? Strong writing demands clear and explicit
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Policies for time studies: A call for a global political-scientific agenda Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Gonzalo Iparraguirre
Considering the global crisis that the development model, based on hegemonic temporality, is going through and the daily social uncertainty it produces, this contribution intends to declare the need for an imminent widespread call for the design and application of public policies about time studies throughout the world.
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Undisciplined Time Studies Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Sarah Sharma
Time Studies should remain unbounded, let to rove across the academic disciplines. More important than finding a home for the study of time is the need to keep time studies political. Temporality is the ultimate political relation and a lens upon which to grasp the social experience of inequity. To consider one’s relationship to time as a form of structural difference refuses the often reductive treatment
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1992–2022 Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Robert Hassan
Thirty years is not so long to the subjective mind with twice that number clocked up in actual years lived. But of course the experience of time in the subjective mind makes many, often inexplicable, impressions. I write this on a computer. A window is open behind this Word document. Ten minutes ago, I was at that window reading that Princess Diana, 1990s upper-class superstar, would have turned 60
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Whose time is it? Negotiating temporality in everyday life Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Michael G Flaherty
Those of us who study time frequently depict temporality as an artifact of traits (in psychology) or structures (in sociology). Yet close inspection of social interaction in natural settings does not support reductionism or determinism. Instead, we find that temporal structures are assembled by means of temporal agency, and, once established, are ongoingly affirmed and upheld or circumvented and challenged
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Spinning the arrow of time studies in search of new directions Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Rasheedah Phillips
Musing about the state of time studies today and its future is in some ways a circular mission, not unlike the way the definition of time tends to spiral on itself in self-definition when trying to pin it down to a fixed or linear point. What does a future or forward movement look like in a space where there are still so many uncertainties about the nature of time, on both the scientific and human
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Transdisciplinarity demands time Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Dawna I Ballard
The inaugural issue of Time & Society emerged at a historical interstice. A new millennium was on the horizon, the rate of technological obsolescence would soon grow exponentially, and the pace of global, digital communication would be upended as more and more people gained access to something novel called the World Wide Web. These developments tied to culture, technology, and communication were also
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Measurable time is governable time: Exploring temporality and time governance in childcare social work Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Teres Hjärpe
This article deals with the workings of time governance in welfare professional settings. A contribution is made to current literature by offering insights into how ‘governing by the clock’ works at the micro-level in everyday interaction and why clock time is purposeful for the operation of power in a welfare bureaucratic context. The main argument posited is that measurability and decontextualisation
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Thirty years of Time & Society: The challenges for time studies revisited Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Barbara Adam
Thirty years ago, as founding editor of Time & Society (T&S), l set out the challenges for contributors in the Editorial to the first issue.1 T&S was launched as an international trans-disciplinary journal, primarily straddling the sciences and humanities. This involved taking great care that all published communications connected with readers outside contributors’ own specialist knowledge practices
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Ceasing, suspending and stopping: Taking care with time Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Lisa Baraitser
Marking an anniversary is a temporal act and Time & Society’s 30th birthday constitutes the journal as a temporal entity; one that marks time, accumulates, folds and releases time, and makes time. If a journal is understood as a set of social relations, then its temporalisation reveals, as Michelle Bastian et al., have put it, that time both ‘organizes’ these social relations, but is also ‘of the social’
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Time paradoxes of neoliberalism: How time management applications change the way we live Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Celina Strzelecka
Time management applications aim to coordinate and tame the rhythms of social reality. It transpires, however, that in many cases, they somewhat complicate and impede this process, leading to time paradoxes. Using various theoretical tools developed in the critical studies of time and the critique of neoliberalism, I identify three time paradoxes produced by the applications: remembering to remember
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Navigating Shomoyscapes: Time and faculty life in the urban Global South Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Riyad A Shahjahan, Nisharggo Niloy, Tasnim A Ema
We aim to decenter the Global North knowledge production about time in higher education (HE) by introducing and applying a culturally sustaining concept of shomoyscapes. While the Bengali word “shomoy” literally means “time,” it goes beyond “clock time” and also refers to memories, present moments, feelings, a particular duration, and/or signifier for a temporal engagement. A shomoyscape entails a
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Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Karen Schouw Iversen
This article contributes to the existing literature on the politics of waiting by discussing occupations led by internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia. This literature has emphasised both the power that waiting frequently entails and, increasingly, the agency it can comprise. Yet less has been said about the potential role of waiting in generating resistance. Drawing on a Foucauldian understanding
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Stitching time and space: The functions of temporal comparisons in utopias and beyond Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Michael Götzelmann
No literary genre seems to be more popular to transport the hopes and fears of humans than the genre of utopia. With the temporalization of Utopia in the 18th century temporal gaps where opened, that had to be somehow closed to explain the reader their present and the fictive future. The means of choice to close the temporal gap is the temporal comparison. On the basis of a corpus of utopian fiction
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When do time perspectives promote wisdom? Exploring the moderating effects of internal dialogues Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-09-26 Małgorzata M Puchalska-Wasyl
Wisdom is considered to be a prototype of positive functioning and flourishing. In the light of previous studies, wisdom correlates positively only with past-positive and future time perspectives. The main aim of this paper is testing whether adaptive types of internal dialogues weaken the negative relationships between the remaining time perspectives and wisdom or change their relationship to a positive
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Time and causality in the social sciences Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Guillaume Wunsch, Federica Russo, Michel Mouchart, Renzo Orsi
This article deals with the role of time in causal models in the social sciences. The aim is to underline the importance of time-sensitive causal models, in contrast to time-free models. The relation between time and causality is important, though a complex one, as the debates in the philosophy of science show. In particular, an outstanding issue is whether one can derive causal ordering from time
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Temporal comparisons: Evaluating the world through historical time Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-09-10 Willibald Steinmetz, Zoltán B Simon, Kirill Postoutenko
This introduction describes the main themes of the special issue on temporal comparisons. It provides the background for individual contributions by sketching the way in which evaluations are intrinsic to conceptions of historical time. Inasmuch as different configurations of the relationship between past, present and future imply temporal comparisons between ‘now’ and ‘then’, historical time is subject
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Temporal typifications as an organizational resource: Experiential knowledge and patient processing at the emergency department Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Marius Wamsiedel
The connection between time and power has been studied extensively. A common strategy through which street-level bureaucrats exert power and dominance over their clients consists of imposing protracted waiting and maintaining uncertainty regarding the outcomes of waiting. In this study, I argue that another facet of power in organizations is related to the temporal typification of cases. By exploring
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“A matter of time”: Evidence-making temporalities of vaccine development in the COVID-19 media landscape Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Mia Harrison, Kari Lancaster, Tim Rhodes
This article investigates how evidence of the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines is enacted in news media via a focus on the temporality of vaccine development. We argue that time constitutes a crucial object of and mechanism for knowledge production in such media and investigate how time comes to matter in vaccine evidence-making communication practices. In science communication on vaccine development
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Disrupting times in the wake of the pandemic: Dispositional time attitudes, time perception and temporal focus Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Tianna Loose, Marc Wittmann, Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has majorly disrupted many aspects of people’s lives, provoking psychosocial distress among students. People’s positive and negative attitudes towards the past, present and future were a dispositional pre–COVID-19 reality. Faced with a pandemic, people have reported disruptions in the speed of passing time. People can shift their attention more towards the past, present
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Temporal comparisons, historical semantics of interaction and ‘post-war consensus’ in British Parliament: Studying time references in a deliberative environment Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-06-05 Kirill Postoutenko, Olga Sabelfeld
This article aims to demonstrate that the transition from the mainstream narrative to the interactional history of concepts promises tangible benefits for scholars of social time in general and temporal comparisons in particular. It is shown that the traditionally close alignment of narration with the production of historical consciousness at various levels hinders the study of time as a semantic variable
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Once again—never before—too late: Competing modalities of temporal comparison in German politics (1790–1945) Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-06-04 Willibald Steinmetz
Comparisons across historical times can appear in various shapes. Apart from simple then/now contrasts, three basic modalities may be distinguished: (1) Comparisons that stress similarity and repeatability (“once again”), (2) comparisons that claim absolute novelty, if not incommensurability between present and past (“never before”), and (3) comparisons that suggest a time lag between two entities
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Everything is old now: A-temporal experiences of the digital in a rural farming co-operative Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-05-20 Joseph R Tulasiewicz, Ellen Forsman
This article, drawn from an ethnography of a rural farming co-operative in the East of England, argues that the temporal experience of the digital is one of a-temporality rather than acceleration. In using the term a-temporality, the article is elaborating on a concept briefly discussed by Mark Fisher to denote an alienation from time, combining it with Natasha Dow Schull’s writings on casino capitalism
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Time, space, and power in digital modernity: From liquid to solid control Time & Society (IF 1.891) Pub Date : 2021-05-08 Raymond LM Lee
Zygmunt Bauman addressed spatiotemporal compression as a critical aspect of the transition from solid to liquid modernity. In this transition, speed and flexibility came to define the conditions of social life which no longer relied on spatiotemporal separation as the basis of all power relations. But digitization of these conditions raises the question of whether the present phase of modernity depicts