Abstract
The article examines the suggestion that an ecological time concept might be achieved by the `re-agrarianization' of consciousness: as in agriculture, thought and action are to be related to the pace of natural processes. Data from empirical investigations of time management amongst women involved in peasant agriculture are used to indicate that, although peasant agrarian time does contain important elements of ecological time, agrarian time is also always formed by social processes and power structures. This is evident at the moment, particularly given that structural changes in peasant agriculture are leading to an industrialization and `denaturalization' of agrarian time. At present, the garden, more than anywhere else, seems to be the place in which farming women can experience a `good time'.
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