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1 online resource (250 pages) |
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Spatial practices ; 31 |
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Spatial practices ; 31.
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| Contents |
Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Introduction; 2 Surveying the Field; 3 Why Waiting Matters; 4 Outline of This Collection; References; Chapter 1 Waiting in the Antechamber; 1 Introduction; 2 The Rise of the Antechamber; 3 Waiting as Social Practice; 4 Experiencing Waiting; References; Chapter 2 Waiting for Railways (1830-1914); 1 Introduction; 2 Waiting Passengers: an Architectural and Operational Challenge; 3 'Systemic Waiting' as a (New) Psychological Challenge |
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4 The Rise and Fall of Static Waiting: Structural Developments of Station Buildings and the Role of Waiting Rooms (1830-1914)4.1 Pioneering and Exploration: 1830-1850; 4.2 Consolidation: 1850s; 4.3 Sophistication: 1860-1890; 4.4 Banishing the 'Waiting Imperative': 1880-1914; 5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative Delay; 1 Introduction; 2 Day Waiting, Die Waiting; 3 Deferrals and Repetitions; 4 A Long Spatialisation of Space; 5 In Search of Lost Space; 6 Conclusion; References |
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Chapter 4 Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary Confinement1 Introduction; 2 Historical Background; 3 Waiting in Carceral Spacetime; 4 Solitary Confinement Today; References; Chapter 5 The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu's "Waiting" and Dinaw Mengestu's "An Honest Exit"; 1 Introduction; 2 Fleeing Is Waiting: Migration and Immobility; 3 E.C. Osondu, "Waiting": the Camp from Indistinction to Imagination; 4 Intertextuality and the Importance of Story Telling; 5 Conclusion; References |
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Chapter 6 "The Waiting Must End": Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers's A Hologram for the King1 Introduction; 2 Entanglements of 'Waiting', 'Im/Possible Events' and 'Space'; 3 Waiting in Eventful/Less Spaces: A Hologram for the King; 4 Conclusion: the Arrival as Non-Event; References; Chapter 7 Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary Waiting; 1 Introduction; 2 Doing Time: Imprisoning Godot; 3 Revolutionary Waiting in Girls; 4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8 Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and Weiss; 1 Introduction |
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2 Waiting in Broch's The Death of Virgil3 Voices from the Asylum in Weiss's Marat/Sade; References; Chapter 9 Scotland: A Nation-State in Waiting; 1 Introduction; 2 If at First You Do Not Succeed, Try, Try and Try Again; 3 Good (or Bad) Things Come to Those Who Wait; 4 'Ever Tried. Ever Failed. ... '5; 5 ' ... No Matter. Try Again. ... '; 6 ' ... Fail Again. Fail Better.'; 7 'Make Use of Time, Let Not Advantage Slip'15; 8 Hurry Up and Wait; 9 Conclusion; References; Chapter 10 How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls; 1 Introduction |
| Summary |
Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im- )mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives - including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies - in order to probe the fluid relationships between power, time and space. The contributors offer discussion and analysis of waiting spaces like ante-chambers, prisons, hospitals, and refugee camps, and also of more elusive spaces such as communities and nation-states. Contributors: Olaf Berwald, Elise Brault-Dreux, Richard Hardack, Kerstin Howaldt, Robin Kellermann, Amanda Lagji, Margaret Olin, Helmut Puff, Katrin Röder, Christoph Singer, Cornelia Wächter, Robert Wirth |
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2 Handala and His Age Mates |
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Print version record |
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Waiting (Philosophy)
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Time pressure -- Philosophy
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Waiting (Philosophy)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Singer, Christoph, 1982- editor.
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Wirth, Robert, editor.
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Berwald, Olaf, editor.
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| ISBN |
900440712X |
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9789004407121 |
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