Time as Ideological Dilemma

An Analysis of `Ordinary' Discourse

Bibliographic Data

ID4356266
AuthorsBrendan Gough (0000-0001-7438-0139, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume6
Issue2-3
Pages213-236
Publication date1997-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x97006002006
OpenAlexW2109966812
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

In a previous study by the author, in which participants were asked to comment on `life in the 1990s', two major narratives around time were identified (within and across interviews) as `conservative' and `liberal'. The former emphasizes present degeneration and nostalgic recapitulation, the latter progress and the relative superiority of the present over the past. This dual accounting around time is framed in this article, after Billig et al., as an `ideological dilemma' and as such constitutive of a dynamic dialectical debate which ensures that no one perspective assumes total authority. The negotiation of these contradictory ideas is explicated and analysed with particular reference to discussions around nostalgia and political critique

Dialectic · Dilemma · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Narrative · Negotiation · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Music History and Culture · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy

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