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Chapter Four. In the Backyards of Modernity?

  • Orvar Löfgren and Billy Ehn
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The Secret World of Doing Nothing
This chapter is in the book The Secret World of Doing Nothing
© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter One. Waiting 9
  6. Chapter Two. Routines 79
  7. Chapter Three. Daydreaming 123
  8. Chapter Four. In the Backyards of Modernity? 207
  9. APPENDIX. DOING AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF “NON-EVENTS” 217
  10. NOTES 229
  11. REFERENCES 243
  12. INDEX 259
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520945708-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter One. Waiting 9
  6. Chapter Two. Routines 79
  7. Chapter Three. Daydreaming 123
  8. Chapter Four. In the Backyards of Modernity? 207
  9. APPENDIX. DOING AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF “NON-EVENTS” 217
  10. NOTES 229
  11. REFERENCES 243
  12. INDEX 259
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