On time : technology and temporality in modern Egypt /
On Barak.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
- xiii, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Revised version of the author's dissertation--New York University, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-334) and index.
Introduction: another time? -- En route -- Double standards -- Effendi hauntologies -- Harmonization and its discords -- The urban politics of slowness -- Counterclockwise revolution -- On hold -- Conclusion: countertemporality.
9780520276147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Time--Social aspects--Egypt. Time perception--Social aspects--Egypt. Technology--Social aspects--Egypt.