Time Is Like a Soup
Boat Time and the Temporal Experience of London's Liveaboard Boaters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4886006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Bowle, Ben Bowles |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ca.2016.340110 |
| OpenAlex | W2405224355 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 19 |
Itinerant boat-dwellers ('boaters') on the waterways of London speak about their lives as occurring in a time zone that is separate from the sedentary world around them. 'Boat time', as boaters call it, is simultaneously slow and unpredictable. The slow aspect of boat time is said to provide a much-needed contrast to the fast and highly choreographed movements of the city surrounding the towpaths. It becomes part of the boaters' rhetoric of difference from, and resistance to, the state and other sedentary elements surrounding them. This article suggests that temporal experiences are a constitutive part of identity, a strategic component of resistance to the sedentary order, and a thread that links the disparate aspects of boaters' own lives aboard
Aesthetics · Art · Resistance (ecology · Rhetoric · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Travel Writing and Literature · Ecology · History · Philosophy
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Unaddressed citizenship
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Pacemaking and placemaking on the UK canals
Time as Technique
Communities of Practice
The Traveller-Gypsies
The Interpretation of Cultures
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Anthropology of Time
Rhythm, Tempo, and Historical Time
The Perception of the Environment
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Situated Learning
Nuer Time-Reckoning
Rethinking time's arrow
The Cultural Anthropology of Time
Troubled landscapes, troubling anthropology
Doubt, conflict, mediation
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |