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Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time: Imprisonment, Detention and Torture in Europe Today

Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time: Imprisonment, Detention and Torture in Europe Today

by Barbara Adam (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to reconstruct both common--sense and social science understanding.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 216
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Polity
Published: 08 Feb 1995
ISBN 10: 0745614612
ISBN 13: 9780745614618

Media Reviews
Barbara Adam is rapidly establishing herself as one of the authorities on the field of time and reflexive social theory. She shows how our present perspective on time is fully out of key with the problems we face in the risk society. This highly original book not only points out the problems but also makes valuable suggestions for a new contextual approach to social theory. Ulrich Beck, University of Munich This book will delight many, including many at late--school or early--university level; since Adam has managed to write at a level accessible to such readers, while simultaneously introducing complexities and depths of theoretical concern often excluded from texts at that level, because seen as too complex. It is a considerable feat to overcome this barrier; and in my view Adam accomplishes it most deftly and successfully. Fiona Mackie, LaTrobe University This ... encourages the reader to think resoundingly, reverberatingly, long after the moment of reading it ... Barbara Adama s Timewatch is a most excellent book. Like time itself, it is more than the sum of its parts. It should be used, not just read, to think through how we can all a do things with timea . Time and Society