The Tempo of Solid Fluids: On River Ice, Permafrost, and Other Melting Matter in the Mackenzie Delta

2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642110309
Author(s):  
Franz Krause
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Space Time ◽  
River Ice ◽  
Mackenzie Delta ◽  
Arctic Canada ◽  
Relational Qualities ◽  
Relative Differences

Seasonal and historical transformations of ice and permafrost suggest that the Mackenzie Delta in Arctic Canada can be understood as a solid fluid. The concerns and practices of delta inhabitants show that fluidity and solidity remain important attributes in a solid fluid delta. They are significant not as exclusive properties, but as relational qualities, in the context of particular human projects and activities. Indigenous philosophies of ‘the land’ and Henri Lefebvre’s notion of ‘tempo’ in Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life (2004) may help to illustrate the predicament of living in a world that is solid and fluid rhythmically, and in relation to particular practices. Economic, political, sociocultural and physical transformations can all be experienced as both solid and fluid, depending on the degree to which they resonate with people’s purposes. In a world where everything seems to be changed and changing, solidity and fluidity may best be seen as indications of relative differences in tempo.

scholarly journals Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanita Elias ◽  
Shirin M. Rai
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Power And Agency ◽  
A Site

AbstractIt goes without saying that feminist International Political Economy (IPE) is concerned in one way or another with the everyday – conceptualised as both a site of political struggle and a site within which social relations are (re)produced and governed. Given the longstanding grounding of feminist research in everyday gendered experiences, many would ask: Why do we need an explicit feminist theorisation of the everyday? After all, notions of everyday life and everyday political struggle infuse feminist analysis. This article seeks to interrogate the concept of the everyday – questioning prevalent understandings of the everyday and asking whether there is analytical and conceptual utility to be gained in articulating a specifically feminist understanding of it. We argue that a feminist political economy of the everyday can be developed in ways that push theorisations of social reproduction in new directions. We suggest that one way to do this is through the recognition that social reproductionisthe everyday alongside a three-part theorisation of space, time, and violence (STV). It is an approach that we feel can play an important role in keeping IPE honest – that is, one that recognises how important gendered structures of everyday power and agency are to the conduct of everyday life within global capitalism.

Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Potts
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Space Time

scholarly journals Racialisation and the Micro-Ecology of Contact

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Foster
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Contact Hypothesis ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Racial Isolation ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Made In ◽  
Meta Theory

This article reviews and comments on the six articles presented in the special focus section of this issue of the journal on ‘Racial isolation and interaction in everyday life’. Taken together, the articles call for a reinterpretation of the spaces of contact in everyday life, with a new focus on the ‘micro-ecology’ of racialised divisions. Contributions are made in three areas: (a) meta-theory, with a turn to materiality, (b) new methodologies, and (c) understandings of racial segregation and contact. The contact hypothesis is reconsidered with new emphases on relations between bodies–space–time. A ‘relational model’ is given in efforts at explanation.

Ordinary Atmospheres and Minor Weather Events

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Gannon
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Relational Qualities

This essay is inspired by Kathleen Stewart's call to pay attention to the affective, material, and relational qualities of everyday life, and by the posthuman imperative that we recognize how we are imbricated with all creatures, objects, and forces in our worlds. It assembles little scenes of weather in everyday life, aiming for an atmospheric attunement to the elemental and domestic, and exploring these through some of the work of critical geographers on affect and atmosphere. As I meander through moments and events of weather in the everyday, I keep close to home, literally, in these scenes of ordinary life.

Tertiary Microfauna, Mackenzie Delta Area, Arctic Canada

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
A. N. Petracca
Keyword(s):  
Mackenzie Delta ◽  
Arctic Canada ◽  
Delta Area

Analysing Everyday Sound Environments: The Space, Time and Corporality of Musical Listening

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaël Nowak ◽  
Andy Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Music Consumption ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Sound Environment ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Musical Listening

This article develops the notion of ‘sound environment’ as a new way of theorizing the relationship between music, audiences and everyday life. The article draws on findings from an empirical case study conducted with young people between the ages of 21 and 32. In focusing on this age range, we consider ‘mundane’ music consumption practices in contrast to the more ‘spectacular’ forms of youth cultural music consumption often documented in academic work. In an age characterized by the increasing omnipresence of music, young people hear or listen to music in various configurations, for example, by mobilizing a particular music technology and content or hearing music while shopping in a department store, visiting a friend at home, or travelling in an elevator. Drawing on the concept of the ‘sound environment’, this article looks at variables of space, time and body to explain the contextualization of music in everyday life.

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