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Record Nr.

UNINA9910372800503321

Autore

Mahler Julia <p>Julia Mahler, Forscherin und Autorin, Großbritannien </p>

Titolo

Lived Temporalities : Exploring Duration in Guatemala. Empirical and Theoretical Studies / Julia Mahler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015

2015, c2007

ISBN

9783839406571

3839406579

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280)

Collana

Cultural Studies

Disciplina

115

Soggetti

Time

Guatemala

Deleuze

Inter-relational Theory

Ethnography

Culture

Ethnology

Cultural Studies

Sociology of Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Acknowledgements    9 Preface: Inhabiting the Event    11 Abstract    27 1. Lived Temporalities in Guatemala    29 2. 'Poco a Poco': Passive Time and the Traditional Home    65 3. 'Todo Sirve': The Passive Self and the Guatemalan Market    113 4. 'Mañana': Becoming-Active and the Unpleasant    153 5. 'Gracias a Dios': The Event and Guatemalan Buses    197 6. Research Findings: Lived Temporalities and the Recognition of the Actual Other    245 Bibliography    261 Appendix    271 Backmatter    281

Sommario/riassunto

In contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of the self opens up to an encounter with otherness. Insights



into the ways in which this dynamic unfolds enable one to affirm human temporalities in their potential difference to the temporalities of global capitalism.The book offers an empirical exploration of lived temporalities on markets, in buses and in traditional subsistence in Guatemala, and a theoretical exploration of these through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and inter-relational approaches within psychoanalysis.