Call for chapters - Making up time: Towards a pedagogy of living and resisting the economization of time

Deadline for draft chapters: November 30th, 2026

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We're excited to share a call for chapters for an edited collection titled Making up time: Towards a pedagogy of living and resisting the economization of time. The collection will explore how we are taught to experience, measure, and value time under the pedagogy of capital, and the ways we resist and can resist those lessons, reclaim time, and insist on another way of being.

We welcome contributions that explore (but are not limited to):

• How time is controlled in workplaces, schools, healthcare, caregiving, activism, and beyond
• How race, gender, class, and colonialism shape whose time is taken and whose is protected
• What students, workers, and communities are doing to resist and reclaim their time
• Practical strategies for organising around time — not just analysis, but action
• The body and time, illness, ageing, disability, rest, and the ways bodies refuse and resist the clock
• Non-human time: what animals, plants, and ecosystems teach us about living inside and outside capitalist temporality
• Climate and time: ecological collapse, intergenerational time, and the futures being foreclosed
• Technology and time: what AI, automation, and digital life have promised us and what they have actually delivered
• Non-Western and Indigenous ways of understanding time — cyclical, ancestral, ecological, and more
• Time and the university
• Time and families 

Contribution types

We welcome full draft chapters from community members, activists, students, educators, and organisers—not just academics. Formats include:

• Personal essays and reflections (up to 3,000 words)
• Research articles (up to 5,000 words)
• Poems (up to 3)
• Short stories and narrative pieces (up to 1,500 words)
  • Co-authored and collaborative pieces are welcome in any of the above formats 

When you submit, please include:

• A title
• APA referencing throughout, as applicable to your format
• At least one section addressing strategies for resistance and action, not just analysis of the problem
• A short bio of no more than 100 words

How to Submit

Please submit your full draft chapter and a brief bio (100 words) to makinguptimebook@gmail.com by November 30, 2026. We will respond to all submissions by December 17th, 2026.