Mush time: communality and the temporal rhythms of family life
Baraitser, Lisa (2013) Mush time: communality and the temporal rhythms of family life. Families, Relationships and Societies 2 (1), pp. 147-153. ISSN 2046-7435.
Abstract
In this short piece, I respond to the invitation to write differently about families, relationships and societies by drawing out an anecdotal approach to theorising family time. The anecdote I use highlights the temporal dimensions of family life, and the ways that time can be 'mushed', resisting the rhythms of late-capitalist domestic life. By 'mushing' time, 'the 'kids' in the anecdote propose an alternative undifferentiated experience of communality, which links with wider generational concerns with how communality may only emerge when narratives of national progress are countered, and attention is turned to 'mush'.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
Research Centres and Institutes: | Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MAMSIE), Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR) |
Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2014 17:22 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:14 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11330 |
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