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Based on ethnographic research with taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements, and others, Sarah Sharma argues that people's relations to labor shape their experiences of time.
Based on ethnographic research with taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements, and others, Sarah Sharma argues that people's relations to labor shape their experiences of time.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Tempo Tantrums: Speed and the Cultural Politics of Time 11. Jet-Lag Luxury: The Architecture of Time Maintenance 272. Temporal Labor and the Taxicab: Maintaining the Time of Others 553. Dharma at the Desk: Recalibrating the Sedentary Worker 814. Slow Space: Another Pace and Time 108Conclusion. Toward a Temporal Public 137Notes 151Bibliography 177Index 187