- Donzelot (1980) offers an explicitly Foucauldian account of similar transformations, underlining the political and economic significance of temporal structuring as a technique of disciplining and (self-)policing.
- Large enough to take the Christmas turkey; to transport at least four people and their luggage; to meet all but the most extreme demands of winter or summer.
- From February 2003, people driving a car into central London between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. have had to pay a congestion charge, initially of £5 and now of £8.
- The respondent quoted at the start of this chapter gives a colloquial expression of this phenomenon when describing the challenge of fitting everything in and bemoaning the fact that ‘you haven’t got the time to do as much as what you want in a day nowadays’.
- Korkman works for a management consultancy called Vectia. The following statements are taken from Vectia’s website. ‘Practices are defined as ways of doing. Examples of people’s everyday practices in consumer markets are walking (shoes), eating (restaurants), working (IT support systems). Companies can gain significant benefits from exploring their markets in the terms of practices . . . Practice Design<sup>TM</sup> differs from traditional market research: instead of studying what customers think, feel and say, we concentrate on finding out what people actually do or what is really done in business’ (http://www.vectia.com/?Deptid= 2588, accessed 31 March 2009).
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