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Sarah Sharma
Canadian media theorist whose power-chronography — the study of how social position produces different relationships to time — provides the methodological foundation for Wajcman's analysis of temporal infrastructure and complements her work on gender and care time.
Sarah Sharma is a media theorist at the University of Toronto whose 2014 book In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics introduced the concept of power-chronography — the analysis of how different social positions produce different relationships to time. Her fieldwork with taxi drivers, service workers, corporate executives in airports, and others documented the ways in which temporal experience is relational: one person's temporal freedom is frequently purchased by another person's temporal servitude, and the distribution of time follows the distribution of power. Sharma's framework is cited extensively in Wajcman's work and provides the methodological complement to Wajcman's focus on gendered care time.
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Sharma's research extends Wajcman's analysis in a critical direction: where Wajcman focuses on the gendered distribution of time within households and workplaces, Sharma analyzes the broader political economy of time across class lines and service relationships. Her studies of taxi drivers, airport workers, and service employees in