<i>La Vida Matizada</i>: Time Sense, Everyday Rhythms, and Globalized Ideas of Work

Syring, David

doi:10.1111/j.1548-1409.2009.01034.x

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“…The interest of knowledge is emancipatory as the work of a rhythmanalyst is to trace and connect rhythms to the 'machinery' (re)producing them (Lefebvre 2004, p. 15). Syring's (2009) study illuminates this aspect well: a house-building project in Ecuador bundled together three men with different rhythms and strategies for livelihood. Albeit mutually beneficial, the construction site was also a site for conflict and frictions reflecting the inequality of global labour arrangements.…”

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Development Cooperation as a Knowledge Creation Process: Rhythmanalytical Approach to a Capacity-Building Project in Zanzibar

Ojala

Hooli

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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In development cooperation, the ideas of material support and instructive teaching have increasingly given way to those of reciprocal collaboration and non-material support. In this research, we explore the potential of rhythmanalysis as an approach to studying complex knowledge creation processes in an international development cooperation project. The Zan-SDI project aimed to enhance the geospatial infrastructure in Zanzibar through cooperation between Finnish and Zanzibarian experts. Our rhythmanalysis shows that knowledge creation in the everyday practices of development cooperation is extremely vulnerable to various distractions on multiple spatio-temporal scales. Continuous learning and efforts are required to sustain the project ensemble and knowledge creation. Although new partnerships and inter-organisational collaboration are a source of novelty and innovation, much of their potential remains unrealised without intensive long-term engagement, possibilities to quickly reform the project scheme, and a sufficient combination of financial, material and non-material support.

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Section: The Basis Of Rhythmanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Development Cooperation as a Knowledge Creation Process: Rhythmanalytical Approach to a Capacity-Building Project in Zanzibar

Ojala

Hooli

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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“…The separation of “work” and “home” time has long been associated with the rise of industrial capitalism (Marx [1857–1858] 1964; Musharbash 2007; Thompson 1967). The five‐ or six‐day workweek and the eight‐ or twelve‐hour workday separated spheres of home and work, producing a disciplining power that shaped the way the body experienced time (Pickering 2004; Syring 2009). As Nancy Munn (1992, 111) describes it, Foucault found in this capitalist time “an ‘anatomo‐chronological’ schema or ‘programme’ for constructing an ‘obligatory rhythm’ [which] … systematically segments the body into spatiotemporal units.” The body became trained to experience time as bimodal—one either worked or played, but did not do both at once 3…”

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“…Syring (2009, 135) similarly describes “blended time” in Ecuador, in which “‘home’ and ‘work’ spaces overlap and collapse into one another.” At three o'clock in the afternoon, Syring's interlocutors may choose to work, drive someone into town, or combine these by charging passengers for a ride. “Money‐earning transport mixes fluidly and naturally with the rhythms of recreating and visiting with friends and acquaintances,” Syring explains (130).…”

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Chrono‐Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Temporal Balancing and Moralities of Time in Contemporary Urban China

Mason

2020

American Anthropologist

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This article addresses the management and control of time in contemporary urban China. It traces how competing claims to, and experiences of, time as a limited resource shape the terms of moral engagement among middle-class women, their families, their employers, and their friends. Drawing upon two distinct periods of fieldwork among middle-class families in urban China between 2007 and 2017, I show how Chinese subjects balance private, public, and interpersonal claims on time, creating hybrid approaches to time management that I refer to as chrono-socialism with Chinese characteristics. This balancing act is gendered: women, and especially mothers, are charged with protecting the moral status of their families and their children through effective temporal balancing. Paying attention to moments of discordant expectations, in the form of expressions of impatience, can illuminate the logics of temporal balancing in the domains of work, play, and rest. [time, morality, impatience, socialism with Chinese characteristics, China] RESUMEN Este artículo aborda el manejo y control del tiempo en la China urbana contemporánea. Traza cómo demandas que compiten por, y experiencias del, tiempo como recurso limitado le dan forma a los términos de compromiso moral entre mujeres de clase media, sus familias, sus empleadores y sus amigos. Basada en dos períodos

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“…Thus, the answer appears to be bound to how migrant communities establish a relationship with the host culture, and how they are able to find their voice. The paper addresses these questions by looking at Italy and the birth of its migrant literature in the 1980s-1990s, to make sense of the many cultural and political contradictions we are experiencing (Giordano 2008;Syring 2009). It opens with a historical focus on the social transformation concerning the migrant experience in Italy in this period, then presents the early experiences of migrant literature in the country.…”

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Raise Your Voice: The Multicultural Question and the Birth of Migrant Literature in Italy

Fontefrancesco

2020

EAP / IEA

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At a time when Italian society is experiencing a surge of ethnic intolerance and xenophobia, the paper addresses the question: "what role can migrant literature play in creating a multicultural society?" In so doing, the paper continues the debate opened in the 50th issue of this journal concerning the anthropological relevance of migrant literature. It shifts the analysis to Italy and looks at the period of fast demographic, legal, and cultural transformation that occurred between the 1980s and the 1990s. This is the moment when Italy turned into an international destination for global migration; a change that also required a cultural change in the country in terms of multiculturalism. Thus, the paper explores the birth of Italian migrant literature and presents the main steps in the development of this genre, which encompasses both bottom-up and top-down initiatives. The analysis suggests migrant literature is a key cultural medium through which the new migrant communities have negotiated their cultural presence in the country and created a bridge and a comprehensive cultural framework within which the different cultures of the new Italians can coexist and mix with the old ones. In this respect, the development of migrant literature can be read as a tool for integration and a fertile ground for cultural innovation. At the same time, the analysis also points out the power relations that underpin the process of cultural creation and the strategies used by migrants in order to achieve legitimacy.

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La Vida Matizada: Time Sense, Everyday Rhythms, and Globalized Ideas of Work

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Development Cooperation as a Knowledge Creation Process: Rhythmanalytical Approach to a Capacity-Building Project in Zanzibar

Development Cooperation as a Knowledge Creation Process: Rhythmanalytical Approach to a Capacity-Building Project in Zanzibar

Chrono‐Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Temporal Balancing and Moralities of Time in Contemporary Urban China

Raise Your Voice: The Multicultural Question and the Birth of Migrant Literature in Italy

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