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Taking care of time! Four facets of enduring time among three generations during a global crisis

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posted on 2024-10-07, 15:08 authored by Jeanette Østergaard, Sofie Henze-Pedersen, Rachel ThomsonRachel Thomson

In this chapter, we explore how individuals and families responded to the disruption of routines and expectations of everyday life during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Denmark in 2020. The COVID-19 crisis interrupted daily routines, which had implications for the trajectories of individuals and families. An analysis of the changed routines alerted us to the changed rhythms of everyday life (Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis. Continuum, 2004; Lyon, What is Rhythmanalysis? Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). Drawing on the work of Lisa Baraitser (Enduring Time. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), we ask what happened to self-care when the rhythm of everyday life was no longer under one’s control. We use Baraitser’s work to notice how individuals and families engaged in ‘acts of maintenance’ (Baraitser, Enduring Time. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, p. 51), and we operationalise these different forms of self-care as four facets of enduring time: staying, delaying, persisting and ending. Our longitudinal and cross-generational design enabled us to see how the intersection of life circumstances, life stage and family resources influenced how the crisis is experienced and acted upon.

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Page range

65-83

Book title

Biographical Perspectives on Lives Lived During Covid-19

Place of publication

Cham, Switzerland

ISBN

9783031544415

Series

Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research

Department affiliated with

  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

Institution

University of Sussex

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Moran, L., Dooly, Z.