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2011 was a tumultuous year in terms of social protest movements. The Occupy movement spread across the globe with unprecedented support of an enormity not seen since 1968, while revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria and Libya caught the attention of the global media and brought the word ""revolution"" back into public discussions on social justice and governance. For many people worldwide, it appears that it is time for social, political and economic change. And it is precisely time, in all its forms, which cannot be ignored in this context. As something that surrounds us and affects every aspect of our lives, time is at once a tool for control, for order, for emancipation, for understanding the future and the past, and measuring degrees of freedom and quality of life in the present.This book brings together essays from fields such as politics, cultural studies and philosophy in order to reinterpret and reorient current thinking on the possibilities for new understandings of concepts of time to bring about social change. History as the passing of time, clock time, the exchange value of time, qualitative time, and alternative or marginal notions of temporality are analysed through the lens of various theoretical thinkers and applied to a multitude of political and social case studies. Breaking away from traditional notions of time as linear, and against common socially-constructed understandings of time, these essays suggest that new conceptions of time can have a major influence on creating a more just, tolerant world.

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The compelling collection, Movements in Time: Revolution, Social Justice and Times of Change, is a cutting-edge foray into alinearity, atemporality, and social justice-driven constructionist conceptualizations that goes well beyond many of our well-rehearsed philosophical frameworks around processuality and emergence. This transformative work elides and disrupts simplistic textual categorization, in all of the best ways possible. The organizational structure of the book and its introduction - as well as the essays, themselves - undermine and critique 'normative' expectations. Moving across and between international and achronological exemplifications - including the Mau Mau revolution and the Occupy movement - the collection's authors and editors perform effectively numerous deconstructive maneuvers that will be of great relevance and interest to scholars-practitioners-activists working in philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, critical race theory, disability studies, feminist theory, globalization studies, anti-imperialist theory, queer studies, and an array of other disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and antidisciplinary arenas. - Diane R. Wiener, PhD, LMSW, Director, Syracuse University Disability Cultural Center The essays in this striking volume consider how conceptions of time both reinforce and overturn the status quo. At an historical moment when people work and shop compulsively using their smartphones - but also organize radical political and social movements - time is increasingly a contested terrain. The fight for downtime is perhaps a contemporary manifestation of class struggle, although, as many of these essays demonstrate, it is incredibly difficult to be off the grid. - Ben Agger, Professor, Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for Theory, University of Texas at Arlington; Author of iTime: Childhood, Work and Leisure in the Smartphone Era (Routledge, forthcoming)

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Cecile Ann Lawrence, originally from Jamaica and currently residing in the US, has a PhD from Binghamton University and a JD from the University at Buffalo. Her work has been published in anthologies and journals, she has worked as a college and non-profit administrator and has presented at numerous conferences. She is the composer of two blogs, http://artcalight.blogspot.com/ and http://cecilelawrence.blogspot.com/, and she has been a social change activist for over 15 years, speaking at rallies and giving testimony at numerous hearings in multiple cities.Natalie Churn received her MA in British and North American Cultural Studies from the University of Freiburg. Previously she completed a BA (European Studies) and BLitt at the University of Western Australia, and a Diploma in Languages (Russian) from Macquarie University. She is currently writing her PhD at the University of Freiburg on the topic of negotiating marginal concepts of time in Australian popular culture. She has spoken at numerous conferences on aspects of this topic, and has received many prizes and scholarships for past studies. She has also taught in Australian Cultural Studies and British News Media at the University of Freiburg. Natalie Churn's research interests focus on the intersections of experiences and understandings of time with cultural practices, and their possibilities for bringing about positive social change.

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