Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life

Southerton, Dale

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-60117-2

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“…Drawing on the concept of socio-temporal rhythms in everyday life practices (Lefebvre, 2004;Southerton, 2006Southerton, , 2020Zerubavel, 1985), we analyzed our findings looking for examples of socio-temporal rhythms and enabling factors in our informants' accounts. Rhythms are regular recurrences that are characterized by either a cycle of events and movement suggested by numerous repeated processes of event durations or a linear recurrence (Wunderlich, 2008, p.94).…”

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Altered Rhythms of Ramadan: Temporalities of Social Media Non/Use during COVID-19

Ekmekcioglu¹,

Caidi²,

Chandra³

et al. 2022

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This article explores how the relational context of religious rituals and practices and pandemic-induced stay-at-home orders shape the socio-temporal organization of young Muslims’ everyday social media engagement during Ramadan under COVID-19. We collected semi-structured interviews with 22 self-identified Muslims who observed Ramadan during the pandemic (in 2020 and 2021). Our findings point to the impacts of COVID-19 and related public health measures in the formation of the participants’ psyche about their observance of Ramadan in 2020 and 2021. Drawing on the concept of socio-temporal rhythms in everyday life practices, we map the temporal patterning of their everyday religious rituals and practices onto their social media (dis)engagement, as enabled or constrained by pandemic restrictions.

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confidence: 99%

Altered Rhythms of Ramadan: Temporalities of Social Media Non/Use during COVID-19

Ekmekcioglu¹,

Caidi²,

Chandra³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…The history of lunch predates the Industrial Revolution, yet this period brought with it important collective changes that shaped the 'working lunch' into what we know today (Elias, 2014). Industrial factories and the urban ways of life that accompanied them heralded, for instance, significant changes to collective timing structures (Southerton, 2020). A noon-time meal became essential to sustain factory workers.…”

Section: Re-making the Working Lunchmentioning

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Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking

Holmes

Lord

Ellsworth-Krebs

2021

Journal of Consumer Culture

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world placed communities under ‘lockdown’. Various practices of consumption were uprooted from their instituted settings and re-rooted in homes. This unprecedented reorganisation of normality resulted in increased instances of domestic consumption as practices occurring in offices, gyms and eateries were forced into homes, demanding the acquisition of materials and altering expectations of what homes are for. This article contributes to literature on COVID-19 and practice-based consumption research by complicating optimistic narratives about the potential for this disruption to downsize the consumer economy. Combining qualitative household interviews, with secondary data about wider trends, and historical reflection on changes in the meaning of the ‘home’ in the UK, we reveal how the re-rooting of instituted practices structures material acquisition and spikes desire for more domestic space. Recognising that professional practices and institutions have taken on increasing significance for domestic consumption, with stay-at-home orders blurring boundaries between home, work and leisure, we conclude by arguing that future research and sustainability policy should attend more to the institutional qualities of practices.

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“…Most of the practices in contemporary societies are organised around clock time, where time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months and years (Adam, 2006; Southerton, 2020). Without the use of clock time, most societies would come to a standstill (Southerton, 2020). There are also numerous other terms used in everyday life, which help characterise different categories of time as well as the cyclical motions of practices related to them.…”

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Audiobook routines: identifying everyday reading by listening practices amongst young adults

Wallin

2021

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Purpose This article explores, identifies and conceptualises everyday audiobook reading practices amongst young adults.Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten Swedish audiobook users aged 18–19. The material was analysed using qualitative content analysis and focused on their audiobook use during an average weekday, as this was the time that they listened the most. The theoretical framework consists of theories on practice, time and everyday routine.Findings Five timespaces emerged when audiobook practices were most prevalent: morning routines, commuting routines, school routines, after school routines and bedtime routines. Within these timespaces, several practices could be identified and conceptualised. Three mobile practices were commute listening, exercise listening and chore listening while more stationary practices were homework listening, schoolwork listening and leisure listening. An unexpected finding was how audiobooks routinely were used to aid respondents’ wellbeing. This wellbeing listening was used to alleviate stress, loneliness and help listeners relax or fall asleep. Furthermore, respondents switch between Music, Audiobooks and Podcasts, which is conceptualised as MAP-switching.Originality/value There is a scarcity of research on audiobook use, and this paper contributes with new knowledge on audiobook reading practices, how audiobooks fit into everyday routine and provides concepts to aid further research on audiobook practices.

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Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life

Cited by 40 publications

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Altered Rhythms of Ramadan: Temporalities of Social Media Non/Use during COVID-19

Altered Rhythms of Ramadan: Temporalities of Social Media Non/Use during COVID-19

Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking

Audiobook routines: identifying everyday reading by listening practices amongst young adults

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