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The changes in the actual time use by Swedes and some discernable tendencies in this change were discussed in Chap. 15. Though we have not attempted to refine today’s trends, these various perspectives on temporal welfare are also reflected in our images of the future in our two temporal structures, namely Fast and Slow. In the former we find greater elements of rational handling of time using technological and economic solutions. Slow, on the other hand, places greater emphasis on social solutions to time shortage. Here there is also a stronger general tendency towards a slowing down to a less intense time use in both work and free time. Time use in Slow is generally more meditative.
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See Held, M. Alles zu seiner Zeit und an seinem Ort, 2001a (Everything in its own time and place); and Held, M., “Sustainable development from a temporal perspective”, 2001b.
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This notion about a simpler life in harmony with natural rhythms is in many ways a modern version of the idealized view of the agrarian society that has been a frequent part of societal criticism since the Romantic period, and then especially in the critique of the modern industrial society.
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See Adam, B. Timescapes of modernity, 1998, pp. 24–59.
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Csikszentmihalyi, M. and Rochberg-Halton, E. The meaning of things, 1981, p. 230.
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See Csikszentmihalyis and Rochberg-Haltons definition of instrumental materialism, 1981, p. 230.
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Höjer, M., Gullberg, A., Pettersson, R. (2011). Time Use Today and in Images of the Future. In: Images of the Future City. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0653-8_26
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