
Timewatch
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"Barbara Adam is rapidly establishing herself as one of theauthorities on the field of time and reflexive social theory. Sheshows how our present perspective on time is fully out of key withthe problems we face in the risk society. This highly original booknot only points out the problems but also makes valuablesuggestions for a new contextual approach to social theory."Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "This book will delight many, including many at late-school orearly-university level; since Adam has managed to write at a levelaccessible to such readers, while simultaneously introducingcomplexities and depths of theoretical concern often excluded fromtexts at that level, because seen as too complex. It is aconsiderable feat to overcome this barrier; and in my view Adamaccomplishes it most deftly and successfully." Fiona Mackie,LaTrobe University "This ... encourages the reader to think resoundingly,reverberatingly, long after the moment of reading it ... BarbaraAdam's Timewatch is a most excellent book. Like time itself,it is more than the sum of its parts. It should be used, not justread, to think through how we can all 'do things with time'."Time and SocietyMore details
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Barbara Adam is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University.
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