The Politics Of Time

The unifying idea of THE POLITICS OF TIME is that time is an object of power relations. Chapters are concerned with different forms of objectification, various contests of power that shape time as a concept and as a resource, and the multiplicity social constructions of time. The emphasis is to ask questions about what time is, how it is reckoned, and what standard is used to measure it.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: A Politics of Time

Introduction: The Idea of a Politics of Time by Henry J Rutz

The Power to Time and the Time to Power by Robert Rotenberg

Part II: Appropriations of Time

The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania by Katherine Verdery

Never on Sunday: Time-discipline and Fijian Nationalism by Henry J Rutz and Erol M Balkan

Seizing the Moment: Power, Contingency, and Temporality in Street Life by Anne M Lovell

Part III: The Institutionalization of a Dominant Time

Time, Talk, and Class: New York Puerto Ricans as Temporal and Linguistic Others by Bonnie Urciuoli

Temporality and the Domestication of Homelessness by Kostas Gounis

Part IV: Time and Legitimation

Jewish Ontologies of Time and Political Legitimation in Isreal by Robert Paine

Centralizing Agricultural Time: A Case from South Sulawesi by John R Bowen