Jet Lag

Object Lessons

by Christopher J. Lee

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomizes the accelerated world we live in. It makes the speed and discomfort of globalization tangible on a personal level.

Tracing physiological, temporal, technological, and cultural meanings, Christopher J. Lee's Jet Lag ponders our intrinsic human limits in the face of modern innovation, revealing the latent costs of global cosmopolitanism today.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

163 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 7, 2017

About the author

Christopher J. Lee is a Lecturer at CISA and in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand. He previously taught in the United States and Canada at Stanford, Harvard, and Dalhousie Universities and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his PhD in African history from Stanford University. Trained as a socio-cultural historian, his teaching and research interests concern the social, political, and intellectual histories of southern Africa. He has conducted field and archival work in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia, as well as having lived in Mozambique and Botswana. His recent work has addressed decolonization and the politics of the Indian Ocean during the Cold War. His articles and essays have appeared in the Journal of African History, Social History, Law and History Review, Politique Africaine, Gender and History, Transition, Radical History Review, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Kronos: Southern African Histories, and elsewhere. He is the editor of Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010). He has a forthcoming book with Duke University Press on the politics of race and nativism in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 2 out of 5]

很一般，这本不值得买