Beschreibung:
Sarah Sharma
Sarah Sharma is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Based on ethnographic research with taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements, and others, Sarah Sharma argues that people's relations to labor shape their experiences of time.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Tempo Tantrums: Speed and the Cultural Politics of Time 11. Jet-Lag Luxury: The Architecture of Time Maintenance 272. Temporal Labor and the Taxicab: Maintaining the Time of Others 553. Dharma at the Desk: Recalibrating the Sedentary Worker 814. Slow Space: Another Pace and Time 108Conclusion. Toward a Temporal Public 137Notes 151Bibliography 177Index 187