Nation Dance: Religions, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Edited by Taylor Patrick. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xii + 220 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Edmonds, Ennis B.

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“…The growth of Ball State University since the 1960s is the key manifestation of that shift locally. Its expansion has intensified a town/gown division that now overlies longstanding social divisions defined by class and race (Edmonds and Geelhoed, 2001;Rotella, 2004).…”

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Time shifts: Place, belonging, and future orientation in pandemic everyday life

Collier

Connolly

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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The disruptions to everyday life wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic include distortions in the experience of time, as reported widely by ordinary citizens and observed by journalists and social scientists. But how does this temporal disruption play out in different time scales—in the individual day as opposed to the medium- and long-term futures? And how might place influence how individuals experience and understand the pandemic's temporal transformations? This essay examines a range of temporal disruptions reported in day diaries and surveys submitted to the Everyday Life in Middletown project, an online archive that has been documenting ordinary life in Muncie, Indiana, USA since 2016. Viewing these materials as instances of life writing, the essay probes the interactions between temporal disruptions and the local setting as they inflect the autobiographical selves our writers construct in their pandemic writings. It shows how living in Muncie—a postindustrial city with its particular combination of historical, demographic, economic, social, and political dynamics—structures the autobiographical stories available to our writers, and how the disruption of time produces new variations and problems for life writing. In the midst of a global crisis, we glimpse the pandemic's reshaping of a local structure of feeling in which a pervasive, local narrative of civic decline frames individual self-fashioning.

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Section: Local/personal Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%