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Introduction: Time and Materiality: What Is at Stake in the Materialization of Time and Time as a Materialization?

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Materiality and Time

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This edited book concentrates on the materiality of artefacts, practices, and organizations and on their historical dimensions. The book combines the recent scholarly interest on sociomateriality with a deep fascination with time and a secular perspective. It adds a time dimension that complements the spatial focus of the first book on “Materiality and Space” published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.

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© 2014 Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Nathalie Mitev, Pierre Laniray, and Emmanuelle Vaast

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de Vaujany, FX., Mitev, N., Laniray, P., Vaast, E. (2014). Introduction: Time and Materiality: What Is at Stake in the Materialization of Time and Time as a Materialization?. In: de Vaujany, FX., Mitev, N., Laniray, P., Vaast, E. (eds) Materiality and Time. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137432124_1

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