This edited volume focuses on the intersection of time and
globalization, as manifested across a variety of economic,
political, cultural, and environmental contexts. Since David
Harvey's influential characterization of globalization as
"time-space compression", ample research has looked at the spatial
aspect of the phenomenon, yet few have focused on globalization's
temporal aspects. Meanwhile, other publications have analysed
problems of speed, acceleration, and the commodification of time,
but while it often serves as the implicit or explicit backdrop for
these studies of time, globalization is not investigated as a
problem or a question in its own right. In response, this volume
develops these conversations to consider how time shapes
globalization, and how globalization affects our experience of
time. The interplay between varying aspects of the human
experiences of time and globalization requires the type of
interdisciplinary approach that this volume takes. The contributors
advance an understanding of global time(s) as an arena of
contestation, with social, political, ecological, and cultural
implications for human and other lives. In considering the diverse
valences of time and globalization, they illuminate problems as
well as possibilities. 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
and varied account of global times. This volume will be of great
interest to students and researchers from a range of disciplines,
including anthropology, cultural studies, globalization,
international relations, literary studies, political science,
social theory, and sociology.
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