Time & SocietyPub Date : 2022-02-07DOI: 10.1177/0961463X211059022
Teres Hjärpe
{"title":"Measurable time is governable time: Exploring temporality and time governance in childcare social work","authors":"Teres Hjärpe","doi":"10.1177/0961463X211059022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X211059022","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with the workings of time governance in welfare professional settings. A contribution is made to current literature by offering insights into how ‘governing by the clock’ works at the micro-level in everyday interaction and why clock time is purposeful for the operation of power in a welfare bureaucratic context. The main argument posited is that measurability and decontextualisation are characteristics of clock time, facilitating the governance of professionals’ decisions and actions, and ultimately their time use. The argument is illustrated with empirical data from ethnographic fieldwork following social workers responsible for childcare investigations in Sweden. The interaction in focus regards efforts to meet a deadline of four months to complete the investigations inscribed in the Social Services Act. As a start, the article illustrates what relational, task-oriented and clock time approaches can imply for time use and childcare investigations, with the purpose of visualising the characteristics providing advantages of clock time for governance. After that, the more concrete workings of time governance are explored in how the objectified clock time, through these characteristics, works as a resource both for subtle routine and self-governing processes, and when the operation of power is more explicit. It is demonstrated how social workers make meaning, plan and conduct childcare investigations in order to make it possible to meet the deadline, sometimes with trade-offs. The governance relies on the facticity of the objectified time frame and the high knowledge status it is assigned in participants’ interaction. The analysis demonstrates the workings when a seemingly ‘soft’ time limit gets reified and trumps other sources for professional knowledge when decisions are legitimised, sometimes with unintended consequences. By analysing social work as a profession performed at the intersection of different time rhythms, a contribution is made to research on governance and street-level bureaucrats’ dilemmas.","PeriodicalId":47347,"journal":{"name":"Time & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"291 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49644586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Time & SocietyPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0961463x211073567
Rasheedah Phillips
{"title":"Spinning the arrow of time studies in search of new directions","authors":"Rasheedah Phillips","doi":"10.1177/0961463x211073567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x211073567","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47347,"journal":{"name":"Time & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"41 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46451518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Time & SocietyPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0961463x211073004
B. Adam
{"title":"Thirty years of Time & Society: The challenges for time studies revisited","authors":"B. Adam","doi":"10.1177/0961463x211073004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x211073004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47347,"journal":{"name":"Time & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"6 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46083997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Time & SocietyPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0961463X211073565
L. Baraitser
{"title":"Ceasing, suspending and stopping: Taking care with time","authors":"L. Baraitser","doi":"10.1177/0961463X211073565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X211073565","url":null,"abstract":"London Marking an anniversary is a temporal act and Time & Society ’ s 30 th birthday constitutes the journal as a temporal entity; one that marks time, accumulates, folds and releases time, and makes time. If a journal is understood as a set of social relations, then its temporalisation reveals, as Michelle Bastian et al., have put it, that time both ‘ organizes ’ these social relations, but is also ‘ of the social ’ (Bastian et al., 2020, original emphases); the journal ’ s birthday is a manifestation of the ways in which time and the social co-produce one another. An anniversary, however, is a particular temporal form that has to do with repetition and return, a ‘ year-day ’ of variable length depending on how a year is socially and politically constituted, but encompassing the notion of coming back in order to begin again. Here I offer some brief thoughts on repetition and return, alongside the temporalities of crisis and urgency, as a way to think through questions of time studies today, especially the question of its own cosmic time, geological time, earth time, soil time, indigenous time, women ’ s time, queer time, crip time, grey time, zombie","PeriodicalId":47347,"journal":{"name":"Time & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"17 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43523110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Time & SocietyPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0961463x211073555
W. Hope
{"title":"Time and the global: Research directions","authors":"W. Hope","doi":"10.1177/0961463x211073555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x211073555","url":null,"abstract":"The global can be encapsulated as a geospatial sphere constituted by geological strata, landforms, sea, biotic life, the human species, and the surrounding biosphere. Globalization as a geospatial concept registers the world-spanning in-teractions of human migration, trade, war, conquest, transport, and communication over historical time. Its contemporary usage spread among academics and journalists once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Consequent Soviet Bloc disinte-gration ended fi rst, second and third world demarcations. This terminology was quickly replaced by a globalization nomenclature comprised of networks, vectors, hybridities, transnationality, and the space of fl ows. Left activist scholars advanced an oppositional discourse centered around the categories of global capitalism, transnational capitalism, empire, multitude, alter-globalization, and globalization from below. Globalization-related research coincided with the diffusion of spatial thinking across geography, architecture, urban/regional planning, economics, anthropology, cultural, and post-colonial studies. The underlying premise was that western metanarratives of economic and techno-logical progress along with the counter-narratives of Marxism and critical theory were losing intellectual purchase. research here there time as The process is subtle; the a necessary Time is plural, multifaceted, a constitutive of institutions, power structures, ideologies, civil social perspective, globality is not just a","PeriodicalId":47347,"journal":{"name":"Time & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"30 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42588343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}