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This article investigates the time use and consciousness of a group of housewives working for Maple, a Japanese network business organizing 200,000 housewives all over Japan. The three years of fieldwork show that the invisible time organization of the housewives has been a vital obstacle to their business success. However, the article argues their time organization does not derive from static gendered time consciousness but it is rather produced and reproduced at the local level, through ideologies, discourses and practices.

Time studies in psychology or in consumer behaviour, traditionally think of the personal future as a Lewinian `life space', containing several well-known time dimensions: future time perspective, future anxiety, and hope. Those dimensions are used to test the predictive power of various behaviours (attitudinal change, health behaviour, delay of gratification, etc.) or more specifically: the temporality of consumer behaviours as implied in consumption of cultural goods, exploratory consumer behaviour, or mail order purchasing. However, the personal future is flexible enough to enable individuals to project themselves well beyond this `life space' into a post-mortem future. In this context, I propose to look at the concept of death anxiety. Researchers studying the influence of time representations on human behaviour should not limit themselves to apprehending the traditional dimension of personal future; they could integrate an understanding of the future that projects us beyond physical death. This requires first a close examination of the relationships between death anxiety and the traditionally applied future dimensions, and then broadening the scope to various human and consumer behaviours still unexplained by traditionally acknowledged temporal dimensions. I first present the classical Lewinian notion of personal future, highlighting some of its aspects, to show how death anxiety is part of the personal future, and presents major behavioural impacts. Second, by using structural equation modelling, and a multi-group approach, I present an empirical study aiming to show the nature and the intensity of the links between death anxiety and the other traditionally applied dimensions.

"Die empirischen Statistiken über Zeitverwendung bieten ein einzigartiges Werkzeug, um ein weites Spektrum von Politikanliegen zu erforschen, einschließlich sozialem Wandel, Arbeitsteilung, Zeitallokation der Hausarbeit, Schätzung des Wertes der Haushaltsproduktion, Transport, Freizeit und Erholung, Rentenpläne oder Gesundheitsprogramme. Die Autoren diskutieren in ihrem Beitrag neuere Entwicklungen und zukünftige Herausforderungen der Forschung über Zeitverwendung und Zeitbudgets und gehen dabei auf deutsche und internationale Forschungsprogramme ein, insbesondere auf die Forschungsergebnisse der "Harmonised European Time Use Study" (HETUS). Schwerpunkte ihrer Darstellung sind unter anderem neue internationale Zeitverwendungsinstitutionen, Datenarchive und Umfragen, deutsche Zeitverwendungsdaten und ihr Zugriff, aktuelle Forschungsfelder und Studien der Zeitverwendung, neue Methoden und Zeitverwendungserhebungen, zukünftige Entwicklungen sowie europäische und internationale Herausforderungen der Zeitverwendungsforschung." (ICI)

In what ways do paces of movement shape places, and how do different places shape their movements' paces? The objective of this paper is to provide exploratory answers to these questions by focusing on the mobility constellations of ferry-dependent islands and coastal communities of Canada's west coast. I focus on the slower temporalities and spatialities of mechanized technologies of mobility by drawing upon research conducted for a larger ethnographic project aimed at understanding the multiple roles played by ferry mobilities in the lives of British Columbia's ferry-dependent islands and coastal residents. Boats' rhythms, speed, and the duration of journeys occasion the conditions for the cultivation of an empirically unique region-specific sense of time. Within this ethnographic context ferry boats serve as technologies through which residents of island and coastal communities weave distinct place temporalities and mobility constellations. Islanders and coasters employ the affordances of ferries to break away from the place temporalities typical of the city. Such movement toward separation from the urban is what I refer to as moving 'out of time'. Moving 'out of time' is done in order to tune into the alternative insular and coastal temporal regimes deemed more desirable by the locals. Such movement toward attunement is what I refer to as moving 'in time'.