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Flaherty, Michael G.; Dalsgård, Anne Line; Meinert, Lotte

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“…The lockdown-present may have been a momentary ‘deceleration’ (Cuzzocrea, 2019) of the ‘acceleration’ (Rosa, 2013) of certain parts of society, and could be understood as a form of ‘extended present’ (Brannen and Nilsen, 2002) in which the girls developed morphing temporality to creatively construct visions of their future. The combination of spatial lockdown constraints and contested life course events may have led to a greater need for ‘temporal agency’ (Flaherty, 2020), having inspired them to develop morphing temporality as a strategy of ‘temporal resistance and resilience’ (Leccardi, 2020), a form of ‘time work’ (Flaherty, 2002) and of creative temporal agency construction (Cahill and Leccardi, 2020) to construct a ‘self-in-time’ and maintain a self-identity (Charmaz, 1991). In the temporally limited state of the lockdown-present as a state of exception, the girls may have been freed from having to pretend ‘okayness’ (Cahill and Cook, 2020), prompting them to think outside the normative box about societal issues and construct visions of the future that creatively contextualised biographical and societal visions of the future through a strategy of morphing temporality .…”

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Adolescence Locked Down? Morphing Temporality as a Strategy to Construct Hope and Control in Visions of the Future by Adolescent Girls Under Lockdown

Bosen

2023

Sociology

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The article examines how visions of the future were constructed by eight adolescent girls graduating from secondary school under a COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. Employing grounded theory method to analyse interview data, it theorises how the girls under lockdown constructed visions of their future along space and time in terms of traffic mobility, nature and embodied reproduction. The findings indicate that the girls creatively used topic-dependent constructions of space and time to generate hope and control and thereby maintained their agency and an adolescent self-identity for their anticipated futures during the lockdown-present. These findings are then integrated into a theoretical model that introduces the strategy of ‘morphing temporality’ to describe how the girls constructed hope and control and maintained agency and an adolescent self-identity despite the sudden spatial lockdown constraints.

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Adolescence Locked Down? Morphing Temporality as a Strategy to Construct Hope and Control in Visions of the Future by Adolescent Girls Under Lockdown

Bosen

2023

Sociology

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“…Faced with these frictions, challenges, and impositions of unwanted time, the riders employed different tactics to avoid them. In order to examine the riders’ temporal experiences, we use Michael Flaherty’s analytical framework of time work (2003; 2011; see also Flaherty et al, 2020) to disentangle the creativity and skilfulness with which the riders attempt to make the app time and its entanglements with the spatiotemporal food delivery economy of Brussels fit their own lives. Flaherty defines time work as the ‘(…) individual or interpersonal efforts to create or suppress particular kinds of temporal experience’ (2003: 17).…”

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Riders in app time: Exploring the temporal experiences of food delivery platform work

2023

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This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork among bicycle food delivery riders in Brussels who worked through the digital platform Deliveroo. The article engages the riders’ specific temporal experiences of platform work. Platform work through digital apps creates an image of aspatial real-time. However, using the notion of the ‘data double’, we demonstrate that the riders not only have to navigate the cityscape of Brussels on their bikes. They also have to cope with unwanted waiting time caused by the frictions between the data doubles in the app and the spatiotemporal structure of the food delivery economy. We argue that the riders manage to bridge the gap between the logic of the app’s real time and the spatiotemporal and economic constraints. They do so by employing different tactics for manipulating the temporal structure of the app as well as their own experience of time. Drawing on Michael Flaherty’s work, we call these tactics ‘time work’. Most of the interviewed riders did not envision working through the digital platform as a career. Instead, Deliveroo provided a temporary and flexible way to cover their expenses while preparing for other, more important issues such as finishing their education. Studies of digital platform work often highlight the extremely precarious working conditions of food delivery riders, but they have lacked a closer exploration of the platform workers’ own temporal experiences of work. This article brings new empirical insight to studies of digital platform work and, particularly, demonstrates that Deliveroo riders in Brussels are both ‘victims and architects of time’. Overall, this article contributes to a better understanding of the experience of time under platform capitalism.

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“…Of course, Pépin’s sympathies are with his mother, so the story makes it easy for us to recognize “time work” in Maman’s strategy for reducing the temporal burden of her obligations (Flaherty, 2003, 2020). From this standpoint, her effort seems agentive, clever, noble, even heroic.…”

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Whose time is it? Negotiating temporality in everyday life

Flaherty

2022

Time & Society

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Those of us who study time frequently depict temporality as an artifact of traits (in psychology) or structures (in sociology). Yet close inspection of social interaction in natural settings does not support reductionism or determinism. Instead, we find that temporal structures are assembled by means of temporal agency, and, once established, are ongoingly affirmed and upheld or circumvented and challenged via temporal agency. Consider the following illustration.In his autobiography, Jacques Pépin's (2003: 14-15) mother confronts a temporal quandary. Her husband is away and fighting with the French Resistance during World War II, leaving her to care for three young boys. She places Roland, Jacques's older brother, "in Lycée St Louis, a boarding school in Bourg," but she is still overwhelmed by her responsibilities: "Between her 6-day-a-week job and her day-off food-gathering expeditions, not to mention caring for Bichon [his younger brother], who'd grown into a big active toddler, Maman did not have time to watch over me [italics added]. The solution was to see if she could prevail upon the Jesuit priests who ran Lycée St Louis to grant me what amounted to early admission" [italics added]. Jacques accompanies his mother when she goes to the boarding school: "We were shown into a dark reception room. A door shut behind us, and we waited." When, finally, le directeur arrives, the "tall, austere priest" is not moved by Maman's entreaties: "'The boy is not of age,' he said." Jacques's mother pleads with him "for a long time," and she is ultimately successful: "I'm not sure what she said, but somehow she accomplished a minor miracle: she got le directeur to change his mind and, more impressive, to bend one of Lycée St Louis's strict rules."Of course, Pépin's sympathies are with his mother, so the story makes it easy for us to recognize "time work" in Maman's strategy for reducing the temporal burden of her obligations (Flaherty, 2003(Flaherty, , 2020. From this standpoint, her effort seems agentive, clever, noble, even heroic. It is more difficult to see that, long before she arrived at their door, Jesuit priests were engaged in an institutional form of temporal agency when they established a minimum age requirement for

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Cited by 9 publications

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Adolescence Locked Down? Morphing Temporality as a Strategy to Construct Hope and Control in Visions of the Future by Adolescent Girls Under Lockdown

Adolescence Locked Down? Morphing Temporality as a Strategy to Construct Hope and Control in Visions of the Future by Adolescent Girls Under Lockdown

Riders in app time: Exploring the temporal experiences of food delivery platform work

Whose time is it? Negotiating temporality in everyday life

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