Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/evH7DNE The Textures of Time Agency and Temporal Experience By: Michael G. Flaherty Publisher: Temple University Press Print ISBN: 9781439902622, 1439902623 eText ISBN: 9781439902646, 143990264X Copyright year: 2010 Format: PDF Available from $ 29.95 USD SKU 9781439902646 What do we mean when we say, I made the time pass more quickly, or, I’m creating some ‘me’ time? InThe Textures of Time, Michael Flaherty examines how we alter or customize our experience of time. His detailed analysis reveals different strategies we use to try to manipulate time, further describing and defining those strategies within six discrete time categories: Duration, Frequency, Sequence, Timing, Allocation, and Taking Time. Using in-depth interviews and analyzing responses through a sociological lens, Flaherty unearths folk theories and practices, which he calls time work, that construct circumstances in order to provoke desired forms of temporal experience. As such, time is not justinflicted on us; rather, its various textures result from our intervention, and/or from our efforts to create different forms of temporal experience. These first-person accounts also highlight ongoing tensions between agency and determinism in social groups. Ultimately, in keeping with his central thesis, Flaherty's lucid prose make this book a quick read, and the strategies he describes reveal the profound and inventive ways we manage the clock. Additional ISBNs 9781439902639, 1439902631
