Full Description
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.
Contents
PART I: BEGINNINGS, CONCEPTS, AND QUESTIONS
Introduction
Michael G. Flaherty, Anne Line Dalsgård, and Lotte Meinert
Chapter 1. The Lathe of Time: Some Principles of Temporal Agency
Michael G. Flaherty
PART II: TEMPORAL AFFLICTIONS
Chapter 2. Repetition Work: Healing Spirits and Trauma in the Churches of Northern Uganda
Lars Williams and Lotte Meinert
Chapter 3. ADHD and Temporal Experiences: Struggling for Synchronization
Mikka Nielsen
PART III: THE POLITICS OF TIME
Chapter 4. Hacking Time and Looping Temporalities in the Identification of the Adult "Living Disappeared" in Argentina
Noa Vaisman
Chapter 5. Temporal Front and Back Stages: Time Work as Resistance
Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott
PART IV: SPIRITUALITY AND ATHEISM AS TEMPORAL AGENCY
Chapter 6. Se Deus Quiser: Catholicism as Time Work among the Xukuru of Pernambuco
Clarissa Martins Lima
Chapter 7. "It Is Just Doing the Motion": Atheist Time Work in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
Maria Louw
PART V: REINVENTING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Chapter 8. Inventing New Time: Time Work in the Grief Practices of Bereaved Parents
Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik
Chapter 9. Now Is Not: Future Anteriority and a Georgian in Russia
Martin Demant Frederiksen
PART VI: TIME AND DEPRIVATION
Chapter 10. The Work of Waiting: Boredom, Teatime, and Future-Making in Niger
Adeline Masquelier
Chapter 11. Balancing Blood Sugar: Fasting, Feeling, and Time Work During the Egyptian Ramadan
Mille Kjærgaard Thorsen and Anne Line Dalsgård
Afterword
Carmen Leccardi
Index
