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Making Time

The art of loving wooden boats

Helsinki School of Economics, P.O. Box 1210, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland mikko.jalas{at}hse.fi

This article adopts a point of view of practice theories and elucidates how temporal orientations commence in the interactions of humans and the material world. Empirically the article focuses on the contemporary practices of wooden boating. Such practices offer a variety of different temporal orientations, which include emancipatory uchronias, flow states, altruistic care of common heritage and craft identities of mastering traditional skills. These positions within wooden boating result out of a distinct historic development. The practices of wooden boating also frequently imply stress and heavy toll on time, and entail subtle negotiations between self-determination and duties as a practitioner.

Key Words: material culture • non-human agency • practice theory • temporal orientations • wooden boating

Time & Society, Vol. 15, No. 2-3, 343-363 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X06066945


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