Time Globalization and Human Experience

<p>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 <i>temporal</i> 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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>