Time Work : Studies of Temporal Agency

"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."-- Provided by publisher Contents Part I. Beginnings, Concepts, and Questions Introduction Chapter 1. The Lathe of Time: Some Principles of Temporal Agency Part II. Temporal Afflictions Chapter 2. Repetition Work: Healing Spirits and Trauma in the Churches of Northern Uganda Chapter 3. ADHD and Temporal Experiences: Struggling for Synchronization Part III. The Politics of Time Chapter 4. Hacking Time and Looping Temporalities in the Identifi cation of the Adult “Living Disappeared” in Argentina Chapter 5. Temporal Front and Back Stages: Time Work as Resistance Part IV. Spirituality and Atheism as Temporal Agency Chapter 6. Se Deus Quiser: Catholicism as Time Work among the Xukuru of Pernambuco Chapter 7. “It Is Just Doing the Motion”: Atheist Time Work in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan Part V. Reinventing the Past, Present, and Future Chapter 8. Inventing New Time: Time Work in the Grief Practices of Bereaved Parents Chapter 9. Now Is Not: Future Anteriority and a Georgian in Russia Part VI. Time and Deprivation Chapter 10. The Work of Waiting: Boredom, Teatime, and Future-Making in Niger Chapter 11. Balancing Blood Sugar: Fasting, Feeling, and Time Work during the Egyptian Ramadan Afterword. A “Temporal Novel” Inspired by the Concept of Time Work Index