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Decolonizing Time

Work, Leisure, and Freedom

  • Authors
  • Nichole Marie Shippen
Book

Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice book series (CPTRP)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction
    Nichole Marie Shippen
    Pages 1-15
  3. Reclaiming Leisure
    Nichole Marie Shippen
    Pages 17-37
  4. Criticizing After Dinner: Marx and the Fight for Time for Human Development
    Nichole Marie Shippen
    Pages 39-71
  5. The Reification of Time-Consciousness and the Fight for Time Reconsidered
    Nichole Marie Shippen
    Pages 73-95
  6. Critical Thoughts on Leisure
    Nichole Marie Shippen
    Pages 97-114
  7. The Culture Industry: The Extension of Work, Disciplined Leisure, and the Deterioration of Culture
    Nichole Marie Shippen
    Pages 115-138
  8. Developing a Politics of Time: André Gorz and the Domestic Labor Debates
    Nichole Marie Shippen
    Pages 139-169
  9. Conclusion
    Nichole Marie Shippen
    Pages 171-181
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 183-232
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About this book

Introduction

Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.

Keywords

discretionary time temporal autonomy leisure free time fight for time the good life labor movement time consciousness work-life balance work-life integration time poverty capabilities approach human development well-being happiness time saving technology sexual division of labor racial division of labor global division of labor feminism Karl Marx liberty political theory politics work

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