Timescapes of Modernity

Timescapes of Modernity
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781134715367
ISBN-13 : 1134715366
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Timescapes of Modernity by : Barbara Adam

Download or read book Timescapes of Modernity written by Barbara Adam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life. Global markets and economic growth; large-scale production of food; the speed of transport and communication; the 24 hour society and even democratic politics are among the invisible hazards we face. With this unique 'timescape' perspective the author dislodges assumptions about environmental change, enables a rethinking of environmental problems and provides the potential for new strategies to deal with environmental hazards.

Timescapes of Modernity

Timescapes of Modernity
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0415162750
ISBN-13 : 9780415162753
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Timescapes of Modernity by : Barbara Adam

Download or read book Timescapes of Modernity written by Barbara Adam and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a unique 'timescape' perspective the author reexamines environmental problems and their cures and provides the potential for innovative new strategies to deal with environmental hazards.

Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781789207118
ISBN-13 : 1789207118
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure by : Sarah Surface-Evans

Download or read book Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure written by Sarah Surface-Evans and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Modernist Time Ecology

Modernist Time Ecology
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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781421426990
ISBN-13 : 1421426994
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Modernist Time Ecology by : Jesse Matz

Download or read book Modernist Time Ecology written by Jesse Matz and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist Time Ecology is a deeply interdisciplinary book that changes what we think literature and the arts can do for the world at large.

Pressed for Time

Pressed for Time
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9780226380841
ISBN-13 : 022638084X
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Pressed for Time by : Judy Wajcman

Download or read book Pressed for Time written by Judy Wajcman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them."--Jacket.

Time and Social Theory

Time and Social Theory
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780745669397
ISBN-13 : 0745669395
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Time and Social Theory by : Barbara Adam

Download or read book Time and Social Theory written by Barbara Adam and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is at the forefront of contemporary scholarly inquiry across the natural sciences and the humanities. Yet the social sciences have remained substantially isolated from time-related concerns. This book argues that time should be a key part of social theory and focuses concern upon issues which have emerged as central to an understanding of today's social world. Through her analysis of time Barbara Adam shows that our contemporary social theories are firmly embedded in Newtonian science and classical dualistic philosophy. She exposes these classical frameworks of thought as inadequate to the task of conceptualizing our contemporary world of standardized time, computers, nuclear power and global telecommunications.

Time and Environmental Law

Time and Environmental Law
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 439
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ISBN-10 : 9781107191242
ISBN-13 : 1107191246
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Time and Environmental Law by : Benjamin J. Richardson

Download or read book Time and Environmental Law written by Benjamin J. Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature's time scales.