Eric L Hsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric L Hsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsu |
| SIGNATURE | HSU E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7789-1556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Technosleep
This book looks at the changing norms and forms of sleep in technosocial times and how sleep is measured, commodified and ‘hacked’ by technology.
Technosleep
The development of aged care robots in Japan as a varied process
Autonomous automobilities
Autonomous vehicles are one of the most highly anticipated technological developments of our time, with potentially wide-ranging social implications. Where dominant popular discourses around autonomous vehicles have tended to espouse a crude form of technological determinism, social scientific engagements with autonomous vehicles have tended to focus on rather narrow utilitarian dimensions related to regulation, safety or efficiency. This article…
Must disasters be rapidly occurring? The case for an expanded temporal typology of disasters
Within the field of disasters research, there is a tendency to define disasters as rapidly occurring events. Some accounts argue for maintaining such a temporal definition of disasters because it is intended to prevent disasters from being theorized in an overly broad fashion. In this article, I critically appraise such a way of conceptualizing disasters. While there is merit in imposing limits on the meaning of disasters, I find that there are w…
Mobilizing minds in working life
Slow Food
The slow food movement developed out of a protest at the opening of a McDonald's restaurant in Rome. Since then, the movement has spread to many other parts of the world. The objectives and practices of the slow food movement have led scholars working in sociology to connect it to several broader contemporary social movements. This entry details these social movements and describes how the slow food movement is linked to the antiglobalization mov…
The Sociological Significance of Non-human Sleep
Within the emerging sociology of sleep, researchers have, for strategic reasons, been mainly concerned with the sleep of human beings. But of what benefit is it to understand sleep as a trait of non-human entities? The aim of this article is to establish why it is worthwhile to expand how sleep is theoretically construed in sociological circles, so that sleep is more than just a property that human beings possess. In particular, I explore why it …
The slow food movement and time shortage
Within contemporary social thought, the slow food movement is commonly construed as a growing, organized protest against the development of high-speed lifestyles. The primary aim of this article is to query the limits of such an interpretation. To highlight aspects of the slow food movement that may not be as incongruous to a high-speed society as commonly thought, I explore how the slow food movement relates to the phenomenon of time shortage. I…
Social Acceleration Theory and the Self
In recent years, there has been a rapidly growing body of work in the social sciences that underscores the prevalence of the phenomenon of ‘social acceleration'—the speeding up of social life— in many parts of the W estern world. Although research on social acceleration has tended to analyze the phenomenon on a social‐structural level, there is also a need to investigate how social acceleration has ‘ramifications for the socially dominant forms o…
The sociology of sleep and the measure of social acceleration
Within Western contemporary social thought, the claim that social acceleration is a key feature of the late-modern world has been widely circulated. A criticism of this argument is that it is often based on conjecture and hyperbole instead of on actual empirical evidence (Rosa and Scheuerman, 2009; Wajcman, 2008). A viable way to subject the social acceleration argument to a higher degree of empirical scrutiny is to deploy the sociological study …
The Politics of Sleep
The sociology of sleep and the measure of social acceleration
Within Western contemporary social thought, the claim that social acceleration is a key feature of the late-modern world has been widely circulated. A criticism of this argument is that it is often based on conjecture and hyperbole instead of on actual empirical evidence (Rosa and Scheuerman, 2009; Wajcman, 2008). A viable way to subject the social acceleration argument to a higher degree of empirical scrutiny is to deploy the sociological study …
Autonomous automobilities
Autonomous vehicles are one of the most highly anticipated technological developments of our time, with potentially wide-ranging social implications. Where dominant popular discourses around autonomous vehicles have tended to espouse a crude form of technological determinism, social scientific engagements with autonomous vehicles have tended to focus on rather narrow utilitarian dimensions related to regulation, safety or efficiency. This article…
Must disasters be rapidly occurring? The case for an expanded temporal typology of disasters
Within the field of disasters research, there is a tendency to define disasters as rapidly occurring events. Some accounts argue for maintaining such a temporal definition of disasters because it is intended to prevent disasters from being theorized in an overly broad fashion. In this article, I critically appraise such a way of conceptualizing disasters. While there is merit in imposing limits on the meaning of disasters, I find that there are w…
Social Acceleration Theory and the Self
In recent years, there has been a rapidly growing body of work in the social sciences that underscores the prevalence of the phenomenon of ‘social acceleration'—the speeding up of social life— in many parts of the W estern world. Although research on social acceleration has tended to analyze the phenomenon on a social‐structural level, there is also a need to investigate how social acceleration has ‘ramifications for the socially dominant forms o…
The slow food movement and time shortage
Within contemporary social thought, the slow food movement is commonly construed as a growing, organized protest against the development of high-speed lifestyles. The primary aim of this article is to query the limits of such an interpretation. To highlight aspects of the slow food movement that may not be as incongruous to a high-speed society as commonly thought, I explore how the slow food movement relates to the phenomenon of time shortage. I…
The development of aged care robots in Japan as a varied process
The Sociological Significance of Non-human Sleep
Within the emerging sociology of sleep, researchers have, for strategic reasons, been mainly concerned with the sleep of human beings. But of what benefit is it to understand sleep as a trait of non-human entities? The aim of this article is to establish why it is worthwhile to expand how sleep is theoretically construed in sociological circles, so that sleep is more than just a property that human beings possess. In particular, I explore why it …
The Politics of Sleep
The Politics of Sleep
Social Acceleration Theory and the Self
In recent years, there has been a rapidly growing body of work in the social sciences that underscores the prevalence of the phenomenon of ‘social acceleration'—the speeding up of social life— in many parts of the W estern world. Although research on social acceleration has tended to analyze the phenomenon on a social‐structural level, there is also a need to investigate how social acceleration has ‘ramifications for the socially dominant forms o…
The sociology of sleep and the measure of social acceleration
Within Western contemporary social thought, the claim that social acceleration is a key feature of the late-modern world has been widely circulated. A criticism of this argument is that it is often based on conjecture and hyperbole instead of on actual empirical evidence (Rosa and Scheuerman, 2009; Wajcman, 2008). A viable way to subject the social acceleration argument to a higher degree of empirical scrutiny is to deploy the sociological study …
The slow food movement and time shortage
Within contemporary social thought, the slow food movement is commonly construed as a growing, organized protest against the development of high-speed lifestyles. The primary aim of this article is to query the limits of such an interpretation. To highlight aspects of the slow food movement that may not be as incongruous to a high-speed society as commonly thought, I explore how the slow food movement relates to the phenomenon of time shortage. I…
Mobilizing minds in working life
Slow Food
The slow food movement developed out of a protest at the opening of a McDonald's restaurant in Rome. Since then, the movement has spread to many other parts of the world. The objectives and practices of the slow food movement have led scholars working in sociology to connect it to several broader contemporary social movements. This entry details these social movements and describes how the slow food movement is linked to the antiglobalization mov…
The Sociological Significance of Non-human Sleep
Within the emerging sociology of sleep, researchers have, for strategic reasons, been mainly concerned with the sleep of human beings. But of what benefit is it to understand sleep as a trait of non-human entities? The aim of this article is to establish why it is worthwhile to expand how sleep is theoretically construed in sociological circles, so that sleep is more than just a property that human beings possess. In particular, I explore why it …
Must disasters be rapidly occurring? The case for an expanded temporal typology of disasters
Within the field of disasters research, there is a tendency to define disasters as rapidly occurring events. Some accounts argue for maintaining such a temporal definition of disasters because it is intended to prevent disasters from being theorized in an overly broad fashion. In this article, I critically appraise such a way of conceptualizing disasters. While there is merit in imposing limits on the meaning of disasters, I find that there are w…
The development of aged care robots in Japan as a varied process
Autonomous automobilities
Autonomous vehicles are one of the most highly anticipated technological developments of our time, with potentially wide-ranging social implications. Where dominant popular discourses around autonomous vehicles have tended to espouse a crude form of technological determinism, social scientific engagements with autonomous vehicles have tended to focus on rather narrow utilitarian dimensions related to regulation, safety or efficiency. This article…
Technosleep
This book looks at the changing norms and forms of sleep in technosocial times and how sleep is measured, commodified and ‘hacked’ by technology.
Technosleep
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