Mush time: communality and the temporal rhythms of family life
2013; Policy Press; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1332/204674313x664789
ISSN2046-7443
Autores Tópico(s)Political and Economic history of UK and US
ResumoIn 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’.
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