Time in our times : stretching contemporary understandings of time / edited by Astrid Marie Holand.

1 Conscious of Time? An Introduction .-- Part I: In Search of a Deeper Theory of Time: Constructing and Defining Time .-- 2 Travelling in Branching Time: A Priorean Perspective .-- 3 Cyberity and Society: The Emergence and Entanglement of Time, Space, and Complexity in Virtual and Social Realities .-- 4 Revolutions and Concepts of Time: Theoretical Reflections about Revolutionary Transformation Processes and their Multiple Chronological Contexts and Challenges .-- 5 Future Climate: Making Sense of the Long-Term to Ensure a Liveable Future.-- Part II: Time as Social Expectancy: Regulating and Mastering Time .-- 6 Never Time to Meet? Time as a Constraint in Cross-Sectoral Co-Creation (Experiences from an Explorative Study of Co-Creation) .-- 7 "A System on Steroids": University Lecturers' Experiences with Time Budgets .-- 8 Between Festivalisation and Spectacularisation: The Compression of Time in Biathlon .-- 9 The Exurban Timespace: Spatiotemporal Decompression among Urban-Rural Migrants in Norway .-- Part III: Time as Lived Experience: Living Your Time at Your Own Pace? .-- 10 While Time Comes and Goes, They Keep Struggling Along. How people with mental health and drug-related problems experience time.-- 11 Flow with the Flow .-- Experience of Time in Wild Swimming .-- 12 Reflections on Time and Temporal Abnormalities .-- 13 Escaping Timelessness: Jehovah's Witnesses' Perception of Time and Former Members Transition to Temporality .-- 14 Time as the Great Revealer: Conclusive Reflections.

What is happening to perceptions of time, durability, and reality in the twenty-first century - and how do we deal with it? This anthology explores a diversity of uncommon insights about time, as seen from our historical and geographical standpoint. All contributions discuss how time can be seen, and how these views relate to changes in nature, technology, economy, working life, politics, religion, or philosophy specific to our own time. Findings are discussed within three themed sections; In Search of a Deeper Theory of Time, Time as Social Expectancy, and Time as Lived Experience. Contributions in this volume span from classical theory on branching time to personal experiences of drug-addicts' time. Together, these diverse contributions shed new light on how construction, perception and regulation of time influences a person's whole being in the world, collectively and individually, in the short and very long run, from the beginning of the Anthropocene to future cybertime.