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Barbara Adam

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PhD Sociology University of Manchester
Masters Sociology University of Manchester
Bachelors Sociology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Barbara E. Adam, , FLSW is a retired British sociologist and academic. She specialises in social theory particularity in reference to time. From 1988 to her retirement in 2011, she lectured at Cardiff University; she was appointed Professor of Sociology in 1999. She was the founding editor of the academic journal Time & Society.

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Barbara Adam's Published Works

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Time and Social Theory (1990) (880)
Timewatch: social analysis of time (1995) (684)
The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory (2000) (544)
Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards (2000) (535)
Future Matters: Action, Knowledge, Ethics (2007) (406)
Environmental risks and the media (2000) (137)
The temporal gaze: the challenge for social theory in the context of GM food (2000) (136)
Reflexive Modernization Temporalized (2003) (116)
Futures Tended: Care and Future-Oriented Responsibility (2011) (114)
Perceptions of time (2002) (80)
History of the future: Paradoxes and challenges (2010) (76)
The gendered time politics of globalization: of shadowlands and elusive justice (2002) (60)
Modern Times (1992) (44)
When Time is Money: Contested Rationalities of Time in the Theory and Practice of Work (2003) (41)
Theorizing culture : an interdisciplinary critique after postmodernism (1995) (40)
Future matters: futures known, created and minded (2008) (40)
Feminist Social Theory Needs Time. Reflections on the Relation between Feminist Thought, Social Theory and Time as an Important Parameter in Social Analysis (1989) (34)
Time (1995) (31)
Time for the Environment: The Tutzing Time Ecology Project (1997) (30)
Cultural Future Matters (2009) (30)
The timescapes challenge: engagement with the invisible temporal (2008) (29)
Re-Vision: The Centrality of Time for an Ecological Social Science Perspective (1998) (29)
Industrial Food for Thought: Timescapes of Risk (1999) (28)
Wendell Bell and the sociology of the future: Challenges past, present and future (2011) (26)
Within and beyond the time economy of employment relations: conceptual issues pertinent to research on time and work (1993) (25)
Memory of Futures (2004) (24)
Introduction: the media politics of environmental risk (2013) (22)
Comment on “Social Acceleration” by Hartmut Rosa (2003) (22)
Future Matters: Challenge for social theory and social inquiry (2010) (20)
Time and environmental crisis: An exploration with special reference to pollution (1993) (18)
Researching lives through time: time, generation and life stories (2008) (16)
Futures in the Making: Contemporary Practices and Sociological Challenges (2005) (15)
Values in the cultural timescapes of science (1998) (15)
Futures in the making: sociological practice and challenge (2009) (14)
When time is money: Contested rationalities of time andchallenges to the theory and practice of work. (2001) (13)
TIME, SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT AND THE POLITICS OF SPEED (2004) (11)
The media timescapes of BSE news (2013) (11)
The Multiplicity of Times: Contributions from the Tutzing Time Ecology Project (2002) (11)
Radiated Identities: In Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of Conceptual Cultural Practices (1999) (10)
Beyond boundaries: reconceptualizing time in the face of global challenges (1994) (10)
Beyond the Present (1996) (10)
Futurescapes : Challenge for Social and Management Sciences © (2006) (8)
Time and the environment (1997) (7)
Time to reconceptualize ‘green technology’ in the context of globalization and international relations (1995) (6)
Time matters: Faces, externalized knowledge and transcendence (2019) (5)
Future matters for ageing research (2014) (5)
Time for feminist approaches to technology, 'nature' and work (1994) (4)
Clock time: tyrannies and alternatives (2013) (4)
Running Out of Time: Global Crisis and Human Engagement (2013) (3)
Four meditations on time and future relations (2018) (3)
Dichotomy between private and public experience : The case of Polish wierzyć ‘ believe (2012) (3)
The global future (2007) (2)
Editorial: The environment in question: From crisis to the maintenance of things (1996) (2)
An Exploration of Responsibility for Long Term Futures (2004) (2)
The Politics of Posterity: Challenge to Theory and Practice (2009) (1)
A social theory exploration of responsibility for long term futures (2004) (1)
XV World Congress of Sociology (2002) (1)
Cosmopolis and Chronopolis. Towards a Responsible Polity of Spatial and Tempora! Equity (2020) (1)
The Politics of Posterity: Techno -futures Made, Mapped and Minded (2006) (1)
INDUSTRIAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT (2005) (1)
Future, Globalization and the (2012) (1)
Giddens' Theory of Structuration. A Critical Appreciation@@@Anthony Giddens: Consensus and Controversy@@@Structuration Theory: Anthony Giddens and the Constitution of Social Life (1992) (1)
IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY, ISN’T IT? (2005) (1)
Promise through the lens of time (2014) (0)
Thirty years of Time & Society: The challenges for time studies revisited (2022) (0)
Abstracts for forthcoming Sociological Review 100th Anniversary Conference (2007) (0)
Editors' Note (1997) (0)
Of metaphors, morals and memories: reflections on socio-environmental action from a temporal perspective (2004) (0)
Mediating Environmental Hazards: the Role of Newspapers in Informing and Educating the Public (2000) (0)
The Value of Time in Transport (2018) (0)
Memory of Futures* Memory of Futures* (2004) (0)
Ideas in Action: The Tutzing Time Ecology Project (1997) (0)
Futures in the Making: Social Theory Perspectives and Methodological Dilemmas (2005) (0)
Time and management (2001) (0)
Futures Honed (2021) (0)
DESIGNING THE FUTURE PERFECT: REORGANISING IS RESEARCH AROUND THE AXIS OF INTENTION (0)
Time matters (2018) (0)
Book Review: Law and Time (2019) (0)
NT-Vic rail line: no need for Govt cash (2000) (0)
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges (2023) (0)
Introduction (2001) (0)
Structural irresponsibility (2021) (0)
Ian R Bartky. Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. xvi + 310 pp. ISBN 0-8047-3874-2, $45.00 (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
GENIES ON THE LOOSE: WHAT NOW ALADDIN? (2005) (0)
authors in this issue (1989) (0)

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