ABSTRACT

Temporal Regimes provides a theoretical framework for understanding the temporal structures of society; a conceptually rich, empirically nuanced and culturally embodied account of temporal phenomena in contemporary world.

What does it imply temporal regimes? How the everyday life as well as the global mobilities coordination requires temporal underpinnings? The answers to these questions mean more than simply understanding the general thesis on acceleration or space-time compression on the one hand; but also, a micro-multiple-localised time experience by gender, class or age, on the other. They also mean understanding in an integrative way the very structural temporalities within the everyday lived, embodied and situated ones. They require both a robust and flexible epistemic analysis considering their material bedrock through political and technological forefront dimensions.

Advancing a rigorous, well-grounded theoretical understanding, and offering a useful way to analytically conceptualise the temporal dynamics on our societies, this book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars enquiring a rich set of topics ranging from time and politics, new materialism, conceptual history as well as technology, collective action and social change.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

Towards temporal regimes

chapter Chapter 1|27 pages

Temporal regimes

chapter Chapter 2|35 pages

Temporal politics

Politicisation of time and history

chapter Chapter 3|28 pages

Temporal technologies and technologies of time

chapter Chapter 4|27 pages

Conceptualising future(s)

Progress, utopia, acceleration

chapter |21 pages

Conclusions

Between homogeneity and heterogeneity – simultaneous but non-synchronic times