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No(w) future: Neo-farming and eco-anxiety in France Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Madeleine Sallustio
Studying how people relate to the future and how it shapes individual or collective affects is a way to grasp what motivates social practices. What would be the effect of the climate crisis and democratic disillusionments on social mobilisations? What impact does the disappearance of the horizon of progress have on individuals' lives? Based on long-term fieldwork among a dozen neo-farming anarchist
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Adapting seasonal beekeeping patterns in western Norway Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Scott Bremer, Simon Meisch, Manuel Hempel, Etienne Dunn-Sigouin
This paper is about how Western Norway beekeepers synchronise their practices to perceived patterns of seasonal rhythms and adapt their timings and ways of working as they sense shifts in these rhythmic seasonal patterns associated with climatic and environmental (and social) change. It contributes to work on adaptation governance with an emphasis on the time sensitivity of adaptive action in institutions
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Fixing the Future? The Controversy Surrounding Tesla's ‘Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg’ as a Site of Contested Future-Making in Times of Climate Change Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Tamara Mercante Thierauf
In late 2019, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla would be building its first European car factory in Grünheide. While the factory was constructed with much political support and heralded as an inevitable step towards Germany's energy and mobility transition in the media, a small but persistent opposition managed to turn the factory into a site of controversy: a controversy not just about the factory's
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Techno-digital policing: Time, temporalities, timescapes Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Elaine Campbell
This paper is about policing and time. Time matters, especially when strategic investments in technological and digital innovations prioritise and valorise the speed and instantaneity of real-time automation. Techno-digital policing recalibrates the temporal dynamics of everyday policework, and opens up an interesting conceptual space at the intersections of criminological research, policing studies
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Temporal volumes and dimensional friction in a coral core laboratory Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Cameron Allan McKean
In the 20th century, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef emerged as a political battleground when governing bodies planned to turn its coral territories into a vast mining zone. But in the 21st century, as the temporalisation of the Reef exerts increasing influence on the governance, securitisation and anticipation of planetary futures, coral time has emerged as a new site of political and imaginative conflict
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The inner life of the planet: Earth system science in moral time Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
This paper stages a dialectic between natural science and moral responsibility by considering the idea that deep time and planetary causality exceed moral thought in various ways. The view has been offered by the influential historian Dipesh Chakrabarty reporting on the views of Earth system scientists. Yet it seems to rest on some confusion about what moral relatedness involves. Considering how moral
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Co-ordinating agricultural adaptation: Seasonal forecasts and their influence on rural agricultural rhythms in Ethiopia Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Mathias Venning, Bizuneh Bushaka
Seasonal forecasts are fast being popularised as a key tool in the enablement of seasonal climate adaptation, particularly in agricultural practice. Derived from advances in meteorological science and technology, a seasonal forecast introduces a novel temporal framework that seeks to coordinate the rhythms of agricultural practice against a modelled future. However, a ‘season’ is comprised of a complex
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Social epidemiology and time use Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Craig T Dearfield, Robin H Pugh-Yi
Examining disease progression and associated risk and protective factors over time is essential for epidemiology. “Over time” can be understood as discrete events in people's lives that affect their health outcomes, including exposures and behaviors. For social epidemiology, this is of interest because time spent in social situations is required to benefit from those interactions. A wide range of social
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Flexible work: Does it really mean more autonomy? Time poverty in flexible time-space working arrangements Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Veronika Kotýnková Krotká
This research explores various dimensions of time poverty within flexible time-space working arrangements and enriches the concept through the application of power-chronography. By using qualitative research methods, such as semi-structured interviews, the study explores the multifaceted nature of time poverty and examines how it is experienced and produced in the everyday lives of individuals with
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Doing youth in time? A relational perspective on the temporal constructions of youth Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Andreas Walther, Barbara Stauber
Temporality is a key principle of the constitution of youth as a life phase. Historically, ,invented‘ and institutionalized as moratorium, youth has been reserved for preparation for adulthood, thus contributing to the sequential order of the modern life course. Institutional age marks in school, youth welfare or citizenship claim to explicitly demarcate beginning and ending of youth in a linear way
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Thinking the future otherwise: Queer futures and queer utopias Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Vítor Blanco-Fernández
Discussions within queer time studies often hinge upon a simplistic binary division between Lee Edelman's anti-futurism and José Esteban Muñoz's queer utopianism. This article aims to reframe this discourse, acknowledging its limitations and proposing alternative approaches to conceptualizing the future through a queer lens. Beginning with a brief overview of both the queer anti-social thesis and future-oriented
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Time management between the personalisation and collectivisation of productivity: The case of adopting the Pomodoro time-management tool in a four-day workweek company Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Michael Pedersen, Sara Louise Muhr, Stephen Dunne
Time-management technologies and their adoption into daily working life have been discussed as solutions for managing individual productivity and as problems that intensify individualised productivity, enhance the norms of busyness and disconnect colleagues from one another. However, drawing on the case study of a company that implemented a four-day workweek, this paper argues that this is not always
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The logic of ‘home care time’ Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Håkan Jönson, Glenn Möllergren, Tove Harnett
The study investigates temporal aspects of home care in Sweden, as experienced and interpreted by older care users. Data consists of 34 interviews with 36 care users and 15 participant observations during home visits by care staff. By focusing on care users’ recalibration of time and events, the analysis identifies a form of interpreted experience – here termed ‘home care time’ – that comprises two
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Exploring sensemaking of trust through the lens of time: Finnish welfare professionals’ perspectives on institutional encounters with forced migrants in the neoliberal welfare state Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Liselott Sundbäck
While attention has recently been given to the time sensitivity of trust, current research seems to fall short of examining welfare professionals’ experiences of the relation between trust and time. Therefore, this article employs an analytical lens of time and temporality to explore how welfare professionals make sense of trust and distrust in encounters with forced migrant service users in a changing
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Introduction: Laboratory times Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Kristin D Hussey, Rachel Douglas-Jones
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“Planning for anything, not for everything:” Uncertainty and temporal coordination in social movement organizing Time & Society (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 E Colin Ruggero
A month before the 2020 US presidential election, then President Trump amplified a false claim about poll watchers monitoring early voting in Philadelphia, stating “They were thrown out. They weren’t allowed to watch. You know why? Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things.” The months preceding the November 3rd election featured many similar discursive attacks on the integrity of Philadelphia's
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The chronopolitics of the ‘Left Behind’: Presentism, populism, and Global Britain Time & Society (IF 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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