Living without commuting: experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19

Николаева, Анна; Lin, Ying-Tzu; Nello-Deakin, Samuel; Rubin, Ori; Schönfeld, Kim Carlotta von

doi:10.1080/17450101.2022.2072231

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“…While some writers were ‘happy and occupied at home’ (W6757a, no information), for most, ‘stay at home’ measures during the first period of lockdown in the UK were existentially, emotionally, physically, and relationally challenging, echoing research on the loss of everyday mobilities during the pandemic ( Nikolaeva et al ., 2021 ). With outside exercise permitted once per day, people comment that ‘the rhythms of daily life were quite disrupted as all one's time was spent at home’ (K7050ab, Male, 36, Surrey, Civil Servant).…”

Section: ‘I Was Stopped In My Tracks’: Covid-19 and The Rupture Of Ev...mentioning

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Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19

Lyon

Coleman

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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The COVID-19 pandemic has foregrounded the significance of time to everyday life, as the routines, pace, and speed of social relations were widely reconfigured. This article uses rhythm as an object and tool of inquiry to make sense of spatio-temporal change. We analyse the Mass Observation (MO) directive we co-commissioned on ‘COVID-19 and Time’, where volunteer writers reflect on whether and how time was made, experienced, and imagined differently during the early stages of the pandemic in the UK. We draw on Henri Lefebvre and Catherine Régulier's ‘rhythmanalysis’, taking up their theorisation of rhythm as linear and cyclical and their concepts of arrhythmia (discordant rhythms) and eurhythmia (harmonious rhythms). Our analysis highlights how MO writers articulate (a) the ruptures to their everyday rhythms across time and space, (b) their experience of ‘blurred’ or ‘merged’ time as everyday rhythms are dissolved and the pace of time is intensified or slowed, and (c) the remaking of rhythms through new practices or devices and attunements to nature. We show how rhythm enables a consideration of the spatio-temporal textures of everyday life, including their unevenness, variation, and difference. The article thus contributes to and expands recent scholarship on the social life of time, rhythm and rhythmanalysis, everyday life, and MO.

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confidence: 99%

Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19

Lyon

Coleman

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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“…Many studies have analysed everyday mobility in the context of severe movement restrictions during the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic, others have focused on mobility ‘post‐Covid’ (e.g., Nikolaeva et al, 2022), but very few studies have analysed the de‐escalation period: a time when moving was allowed but strongly discouraged from a political, social and public health perspective.…”

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Unique times, unequal mobilities: Daily mobility during the de‐escalation of the COVID‐19 pandemic

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Torrado

Palomares‐Linares

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Population Space and Place

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Scholars have highlighted drastic reductions in daily mobility during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. But what happened when restrictions were relaxed though risk remained ubiquitous? How did patterns of mobility change and how were they structured by socioeconomic resources and social roles? We address these questions using a cross-sectional representative sample (n = 2942) of the population of Andalusia, Spain, after a month and a half of severe lockdown in 2020.We find that older people were the least mobile group and that people living with children and in extended households were less likely to move to take care of others, unlike before the pandemic. Men were more likely to carry out daily mobilities for which women had been traditionally responsible, such as care mobilities. Women were also more likely to be immobile and less likely to commute. Finally, manual and nonqualified workers were more likely to commute, but they were just as likely as any other group to carry out other types of mobility. These results highlight the social character of mobility in a unique context. We emphasize the need to disaggregate daily mobility based on different purposes as well analysing how these are practised by different sociodemographic groups if we want to provide rigorous descriptions of a core component of individuals' daily life.

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“…During the COVID pandemic, individuals, communities and companies have had to experiment with continuing their activities while relying much less on physical mobility. While a privileged minority had the conditions to prosper in this initially unwelcomed state-of-affairs, many endured terrible experiences ( Kokkola et al, 2022 ;Nikolaeva et al, 2022 ). In line with this, mobility as unnecessity is a narrative seed that highlights the need to promote conditions where stillness, low speed, and proximity-based social contacts and resources become (again) the object of positive attention and investment.…”

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confidence: 95%