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.

Autorentext

Nichole Marie Shippen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, USA.

Inhalt

1. Reclaiming Leisure 2. Criticizing After Dinner: Marx and the Fight for Time for Human Development 3. The Reification of Time-Consciousness and the Fight for Time Reconsidered 4. Critical Thoughts on Leisure 5. The Culture Industry: The Extension of Work, Disciplined Leisure, and the Deterioration of Culture 6. Developing a Politics of Time: André Gorz and the Domestic Labor Debates