The ownership of time : culture, property and social theory

The main argument of this thesis is that the future-oriented vision that characterizes modernity has, in recent years, become inverted into an obsession with the past, an obsession that is played out using the discourses of "ownership". The argument is developed by drawing a parallel betwe...

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Main Author: Flessas, Tatiana
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399444