Description:
This collection considers how time shapes globalization, and how globalization affects our experience of time, as manifested across a variety of economic, political, cultural, and environmental contexts. Topics covered include emerging infectious diseases, temporal sovereignty, worker exploitation and resistance, chronobiology, energy politics, activism and hope, and literary and cinematic representations of counter-temporalities, offering a rich, varied account of global time. This book will interest students and researchers from a range of disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, globalization, literary studies, political science and IR, social theory, and sociology.
Review Quotes:
'This vibrant collection provides a nuanced, multifaceted exploration of the intricacies of the temporal and the global, especially in relation to human imagination and sociality. A must for scholars from across the disciplines interested in processes and practices connected to globalization.' -- Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
'Because it opens up and deepens the ways we can think critically of time and temporality - and shows why doing so is more urgent than ever - this volume is essential reading.' - Robert Latham, York University, Toronto, Canada