Rethinking the timescape of home: Domestic practices in time and space

Liu, Chen

doi:10.1177/0309132520923138

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“…Our interest in people’s pandemic exercise routines encompasses the material, social and emotional dimensions of these experiences as they are performed within the home and its surrounding spaces. We draw inspiration from studies of home-based media and cultural geographers, understanding the home as an ever-shifting more-than-human assemblage ‘shaped by emotions, things, social relations, imaginaries and practices’ (Liu, 2021: 341). From these perspectives, the home is envisaged as not merely a location but a dynamic entity that evolves and is transformed through encounters with human and nonhuman things and with the forces generated through and with these assemblages (Massey, 2005).…”

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Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

Clark

Lupton

2021

Convergence

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The implementation of physical distancing measures and lockdowns across the globe to control the spread of COVID-19 has led to the home becoming a focal point of exercise and fitness activities for many people. A plethora of digital tools were hastily assembled to help people workout at home or in spaces close to home: including apps with workout suggestions, online videos and livestreamed fitness classes. In this article, we draw on our empirical material collected through semi-structured interviews and virtual ethnographic home tours with Australian adults to explore the ‘pandemic fitness assemblages’ generated with and through their improvised pandemic fitness practices inside and outside their homes. These materials illustrate how bodies, digital and non-digital technologies, and place and space came together and help to surface the affects, sensations and embodiments that emerged. We describe how people’s re-imagined fitness practices contributed to daily routines, transformed the atmospheres of the home and yielded affective experiences of escape. To do so, we think with sociospatial and feminist materialism theoretical frameworks that emphasise the generative relationships emerging between human and more-than-human forces and entities. Our analysis further illuminates the situatedness and relationality of these heterogeneous forces and considers how they come to matter within the broader sociomaterial context of COVID-19.

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Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

Clark

Lupton

2021

Convergence

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“…Critical studies on the material realm of the home indicate that home is created by many cultural, economic, and social factors. The materiality of home is examined in its physical characteristics and existence as an object in space and time built up by material things (Chevalier, 2012;Liu, 2021;Smith, 2012); How people make and use spatial configurations, in other words, an attempt to identify how spatial configurations express a social or cultural meaning and how spatial configurations generate the social interactions in built environments (Griffiths, 2017;Refaat, 2019;van Nes & Yamu, 2021). In this research, we try to understand the material cultures of the Iranian home as a social construction by examining the spatial patterns and territories.…”

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The Material Cultures of the Iranian Home: Cultural Reading

Valibeigi

Maroofi

Danay

2022

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This study aims to identify the main components of the material cultures of Iranian homes. Accordingly, based on the grounded theory, content analyses of plans, diagrams, interviews, and field observations are done. An expert sampling as a type of purposive sampling is used for choosing Iranian traditional houses. The results show core concepts of the material cultures of the Iranian home are confidentiality (Hijab), collaboration, purification, contentment, obedience and submission, and humility. In the form of division of paths (porch), defined communications of spaces, use of different door knockers at the entrance, observance of hierarchy, and access from public to private spaces are defined confidentiality. The second important cultural concept of these homes is the obedience and submission that are induced by religious signs and abstract decorations in the interior space. Humility is also emphasized by avoiding showing off and ostentation and aligning the body and facade of houses with the environment. It seems that the material cultures of the Iranian home have the capability to be the architectural patterns of houses, but when are combined with privacy values and feminine principles.

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“…In this approach, participants, inviting members of the research team into their home, lead a tour highlighting the spatialities of where digital devices are sited or travel into and how other residents use them as a household. This structure allows for a strong sociomaterial style of ethnographic interview, where the presence, spatiality and sociality of devices and ‘timescapes of home’ ( Liu, 2020 ) may be illuminated: including the connections and relationships between the digital devices themselves as well as the digital data they generate when they are used.…”

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Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Watson

Lupton

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing projects requiring face-to-face fieldwork. An exploration of engaging in what we term ‘agile research’ in such circumstances can offer novel methodological insights for researching the social world. In this article, we discuss the changes we made to our ethnographic fieldwork in response to the introduction of a national lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. The ‘Living with Personal Data’ project, based in Sydney, Australia, and designed well before the advent of COVID-19, explores a diverse range of people’s feelings, practices and understandings concerning home-based digital devices and the personal digital data generated with their use. Using a video ethnography ‘home tour’ and an elicitation technique involving hand-drawn maps of people’s homes, digital devices and the personal data generated with and through these devices, this approach was designed to elicit the sensory, affective and relational elements of people’s digital device and personal data use at home. The fieldwork had just commenced when stay-at-home and physical distancing orders were suddenly introduced. Our article builds on and extends a growing body of literature on conducting fieldwork in the difficult conditions of the extended COVID-19 crisis by detailing our experiences of very quickly converting an ethnographic study that was planned to be in-person to a remote approach. We describe the adaptations we made to the project using video-call software and discuss the limits and opportunities presented by this significant modification.

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Rethinking the timescape of home: Domestic practices in time and space

Cited by 32 publications

References 121 publications

Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

The Material Cultures of the Iranian Home: Cultural Reading

Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

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