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On Time Paperback - 2013
by Barak, On,
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Details
- Title On Time
- Author Barak, On,
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2013-07-19
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 19613142
- ISBN 9780520276147 / 0520276140
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Category History - General History
- Library of Congress subjects Egypt - History - British occupation,, Egypt - Social conditions - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013010761
- Dewey Decimal Code 962.04
- Quantity available 1
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"On Time's primary contribution is to offer the first study of modernity in the Egyptian context that attends to the new technological modes by which that distinction in temporality was historically produced. This approach departs from the largely nation- and human-centered narratives of Egyptian history. By focusing on non-human agents and using a trans-regional perspective, a larger cast of actors and other vectors of historical change come into view. This work will advance both historical and critical efforts to de-center secular, pietistic accounts of our shared modern past, whether those pieties belong to civilizations, empires, nation-states, or humankind."
--Wilson Jacob, author of Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 " [On Time] constitutes a fascinating contribution to a growing field of inquiry - namely, the social construction of time in colonial contexts. Through a close reading of a breathtaking variety of sources, ranging from newspapers to fatwas, from advice books to train schedules, On Barak develops a compelling narrative of how Egyptians, through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, developed what he calls 'counter-tempos' - approaches to apprehending and navigating the 'homogenous, empty' time of Western modernity in profoundly subversive ways."
--Paul Sedra, author of From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth-Century Egypt "On Time is a compelling argument about the institutionalization of modern temporality in Egypt, the subjectivities and attitudes it fostered, and the resistances it encountered. With a creative flourish, Barak renders time immanent in this book by tracking its transformation through the use of new technologies (clocks, telegraph, calendars, railways, trams, telephones) all of which in turn changed how Egyptians thought about themselves and related to each other. Through a keen playful analysis of culture, capitalism, and modernity, Barak reminds us how we are made and unmade in time."
--Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
--Wilson Jacob, author of Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 " [On Time] constitutes a fascinating contribution to a growing field of inquiry - namely, the social construction of time in colonial contexts. Through a close reading of a breathtaking variety of sources, ranging from newspapers to fatwas, from advice books to train schedules, On Barak develops a compelling narrative of how Egyptians, through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, developed what he calls 'counter-tempos' - approaches to apprehending and navigating the 'homogenous, empty' time of Western modernity in profoundly subversive ways."
--Paul Sedra, author of From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth-Century Egypt "On Time is a compelling argument about the institutionalization of modern temporality in Egypt, the subjectivities and attitudes it fostered, and the resistances it encountered. With a creative flourish, Barak renders time immanent in this book by tracking its transformation through the use of new technologies (clocks, telegraph, calendars, railways, trams, telephones) all of which in turn changed how Egyptians thought about themselves and related to each other. Through a keen playful analysis of culture, capitalism, and modernity, Barak reminds us how we are made and unmade in time."
--Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
