standard units.” Accuracy in measurement will bring the peasants not just into the space, but also the time of the nation; time that encapsulates constancy and precision, as well as leisure within its dimensions. Orderly bus schedules and punctual delivery times for trucks are one way of ensuring this mode of predictability. Seasonal and cyclical conceptions of time, where the “day’s activities are regulated by the rising and setting of the sun,” the shadows, the farming routine or the call to prayer are supplanted by synchronized and linear accounts of temporality in the social scientists’ writings. The division of the day into standardized units is accompanied with changes in perceptions of space and measurement: as a measure for length, the of a “the ‘step’ ‘height man or a minaret’ as a measure for depth…are things of the past.” Distances will no longer be formulated as a bullet’s reach, far as my voice can go,’ far as (it takes) to smoke a “within ‘as ‘as cigarette.” The dissemination of standards in precision and scope is also a measure of is “what familiar and what is The evenness of time and space is readily comprehended across ‘strange.’” the country, wherein their abstraction and standardization” have to mark “objectification, “come modern life,” as well as governance.” The vehicles,” after all, not only “modern “new “do the conception of time and space’ and lead to the forgetting of the old clock, but also ‘change increase the field of movement for people…Contact between people increases in intensity, public opinion is born, etiquette and experience spread in a larger field.” As units of time and measures of distance are rendered orderly, attitudes, too, are presumed to be normalized and increasingly open to regulation. In Mübeccel Kıray’s study of Ereğli, a coastal town on the Black Sea, it is changing means of communication and transportation that inform the questionnaires gauging the worldviews, behaviors, and perceptions of time and space on the part of its inhabitants. Kıray attempts to discern the contours of the shrinking geotemporal universe by probing the
standard units.” Accuracy in measurement will bring the peasants not just into the space, but also the time of the nation; time that encapsulates constancy and precision, as well as leisure within its dimensions. Orderly bus schedules and punctual delivery times for trucks are one way of ensuring this mode of predictability. Seasonal and cyclical conceptions of time, where the “day’s activities are regulated by the rising and setting of the sun,” the shadows, the farming routine or the call to prayer are supplanted by synchronized and linear accounts of temporality in the social scientists’ writings. The division of the day into standardized units is accompanied with changes in perceptions of space and measurement: “the ‘step’ as a measure for length, the ‘height of a man or a minaret’ as a measure for depth…are things of the past.” Distances will no longer be formulated as “within a bullet’s reach, ‘as far as my voice can go,’ ‘as far as (it takes) to smoke a cigarette.” The dissemination of standards in precision and scope is also a measure of “what is familiar and what is ‘strange.’” The evenness of time and space is readily comprehended across the country, wherein their “objectification, abstraction and standardization” have “come to mark modern life,” as well as “modern governance.” The “new vehicles,” after all, “do not only ‘change the conception of time and space’ and lead to the forgetting of the old clock, but also increase the field of movement for people…Contact between people increases in intensity, public opinion is born, etiquette and experience spread in a larger field.” As units of time and measures of distance are rendered orderly, attitudes, too, are presumed to be normalized and increasingly open to regulation. In Mübeccel Kıray’s study of Ereğli, a coastal town on the Black Sea, it is changing means of communication and transportation that inform the questionnaires gauging the worldviews, behaviors, and perceptions of time and space on the part of its inhabitants. Kıray attempts to discern the contours of the shrinking geotemporal universe by probing the