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The Politics of Sleep 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd ii 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0000 PPMM Also by Simon J. Williams SLEEP AND SOCIETY: Sociological Ventures into the (Un)known DEBATING BIOLOGY: Sociology Reflections on Health, Medicine and Society (co-edited) EMOTIONS AND SOCIAL LIFE (co-edited) EMOTION AND SOCIAL THEORY GENDER, HEALTH AND HEALING: The Public/Private Divide (co-edited) MEDICINE AND THE BODY HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY: Key Theories, Future Agendas (co-edited) MODERN MEDICINE: Lay Perspectives and Experiences (co-edited) PHARMACEUTICALS AND SOCIETY: Critical Discourses and Debates (co-edited) THE LIVED BODY: Sociological Themes, Embodied Agendas CHRONIC RESPIRATORY ILLNESS 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd iiii 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0011 PPMM The Politics of Sleep Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age Simon J. Williams University of Warwick, UK 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd iiiiii 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0011 PPMM © Simon J. Williams 2011 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited,registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States,the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–22366–0 hardback ISBN: 978–0–230–22367–7 paperback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd iivv 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0011 PPMM To the memory of my Dad, Alan George Williams (17 October 1920–31 January 2008), who lives on through me and my boys Jacob and Adam 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd vv 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0011 PPMM 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd vvii 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0011 PPMM Contents Acknowledgements viii Introduction: The Politics of Sleep? x 1 Restless Times: Wired Awake in Fast Capitalism? 1 2 Vigilance and Virtue: Sleep, Citizenship and the Politics of Blame 26 3 (In)equality and (In)justice: The Rights and Wrongs of Sleep 54 4 Transgression and Taboo: The ‘Sleep of Reason’ and the Politics of Release? 79 5 Transformations and Translations: The Laboratory, the Clinic and the Future of Sleep ... 109 Afterword: In Search of Sleep ... Or ... The Politics of Sleep Revisited 158 References 165 Index 193 vii 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd vviiii 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0011 PPMM Acknowledgements Thanks to Philippa Grand at Palgrave Macmillan for encouraging me to write this book and to the University of Warwick for the study leave granted to do so. Thanks too to various friends, colleagues and acquaintances over the years who have shaped in innumerable ways the arguments and ideas, still in progress, that follow in the pages of this book, particularly Jon Gabe, Nick Crossley, Peter Conrad, Kenton Kroker, Philip Hancock, Mathew Thomson, Tom Crook, Steve Kroll-Smith, Brigitte Steger, Lodewijk Brunt, Sara Arber, Rob Meadows, Jenny Hislop, Sharon Boden, Clive Seale, Pam Lowe, Cathy Humphreys, Gill Bendelow, Paul Martin, John Abraham, Nigel Thrift, Nick Lee, Steve Fuller, Paul Higgs, Stephen Katz, Wendy Martin and Deborah Steinberg – apol- ogies to anyone I’ve missed out here! Thanks also to Jon Gabe and Gill Shreir for comments on various bits of this book, to Angela Munro for her professional guidance, good humour and support and to Ruth Charity (as always) for putting up with me both during the writing of this book and in general! At a rough guesstimate, I have consumed around about 840 cups of coffee and 560 cups of tea during this writing project, many in cafes I frequented if not colonised or squat- ted in during my sabbatical, so thanks are also probably due on this count to those friendly folks, particularly Monia Smielewska, who have fuelled and indeed benefited from my caffeine consumption and, in so doing, kept me alert/ awake or wired enough courtesy of this popular drug of viii 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd vviiiiii 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0011 PPMM Acknowledgements ix ours to complete this book project more or less on schedule, give or take a few months! Last but not least, a nod in the direction of my two young boys and aspiring superheroes, Jacob and Adam (aka Batman and Robin), those saboteurs of my sleep and regular intruders into my office space, whom I love to bits but with- out whose ‘help’ this book would undoubtedly have been finished oh so much sooner! Thanks a bunch, boys. I owe you ... 99778800223300__222233666600__0011__pprreexxxxvviiiiii..iinndddd iixx 33//1155//22001111 55::5500::0011 PPMM
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