Apprehending everyday rhythms: rhythmanalysis, time-lapse photography, and the space-times of street performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Rhythms ◽  
Street Performance ◽  
Time Lapse Photography

This paper develops means of apprehending the rhythms of everyday practices and performances. Emerging from the context of recent calls for more explicit engagements with issues surrounding research methods and methodologies in the doing of cultural geography, and in particular in the examination of the geographies of practices, the paper responds to critiques of recent discussions of urban and social rhythms that highlight limitations in the articulation of methods for actually apprehending everyday rhythms. As such, in conversation with Lefebvre’s portrait of the rhythmanalyst and other works interested in the significance of rhythm to social practices, the paper proposes time-lapse photography as a useful component of such a rhythm-analytical, and more generally practice-orientated, methodology. In doing so, the paper draws attention to this method’s ability to document and facilitate the reflection upon the complex durational unfolding of events and the situation of key occurrences within this polyrhythmia. This is illustrated in relation to the everyday rhythms of a specific urban space in Bath, UK and a street magician’s variously successful attempt to intervene into the everyday life of Bath.

scholarly journals La bibliothèque au-delà de la bibliothèque

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Maurizio Bergamaschi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The public library of Casalecchio di Reno, a small town near Bologna (Italy), is an articulated and multifunctional space, a reference point not only for the municipality but also for the surrounding areas. This library is characterized by multiple spaces and functions, some of which are well-defi ned whilst others less, and diff erent groups of population use it. Together, its low level of regulatory framework, its geographical location and its confi guration as a «public space» make this library both a place of culture and a place of hospitality and friendliness in urban space. By analysing the everyday practices and the concrete actions performed by the subjects, the present study focused on the redefinition of space and on the practices of re-signifi cation, as well as on the manifest or latent needs that underlie such practices.

scholarly journals Doing Audio-Visual Montage to Explore Time and Space: The Everyday Rhythms of Billingsgate Fish Market

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Time Lapse ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Fish Market ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Time Lapse Photography

This article documents, shows and analyses the everyday rhythms of Billingsgate, London's wholesale fish market. It takes the form of a short film based an audio-visual montage of time-lapse photography and sound recordings, and a textual account of the dimensions of market life revealed by this montage. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis, and the embodied experience of moving through and sensing the market, the film renders the elusive quality of the market and the work that takes place within it to make it happen. The composite of audio-visual recordings immerses viewers in the space and atmosphere of the market and allows us to perceive and analyse rhythms, patterns, flows, interactions, temporalities and interconnections of market work, themes that this article discusses. The film is thereby both a means of showing market life and an analytic tool for making sense of it. This article critically considers the documentation, evocation and analysis of time and space in this way.

scholarly journals Urban space in the everyday lives of mothers and fathers on family leave in Helsinki

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Lilius
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Family Leave ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
City Life ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Ways Of Being

This paper focuses on the meaning of the urban environment for parents on family leave in Helsinki, Finland. Finland is a part of the Nordic model that emphasises ‘family-friendly arrangements’, such as family leave for mothers and fathers. To date, there is little research on how parents use urban space on family leave, although it is known that fathers stay on family leave more often in urban areas. Based on a triangulation of qualitative data on the day-to-day life of mothers and fathers on family leave, the paper argues that particular place-dependent ways of being on family leave take place in the inner city. Mixed-use pavements in many ways help mothers and fathers to cope in their new life situation and break the isolation often associated with family leave. The data also shows the importance of family-friendly public and commercial places in the city, such as playgrounds and accessible grocery shops, cafeterias and restaurants. The paper concludes that there is a need to further explore the production side of the everyday practices of parents, and how they add to city life and participate in changing cityscapes.

Balcony space: anthropological and sociological study

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-155
Author(s):  
ALLA PETRENKO-LYSAK ◽  
TINA POLEK
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Planning Problem ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Applied Study ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The City ◽  
Mass Construction

Architectural elements and everyday practices of interaction of citizens with them are an integral part of the image and space of the city. That is why the analysis of the balcony as a social item requires its consideration precisely as a phenomenon in the multitude of its interrelationships with the urban space and the exploration practices. The article presents the anthropological and sociological characteristics of the urban balcony culture not as an architectural component, but in the focus of the everyday functions of their use and re-exploration. The word "balcony" is chosen to denote various types of balcony-like spatial forms, including loggias, small attics, bay windows, etc., because the "classic" balcony in Ukrainian mass construction is the most common. There is an outlined range of reasons that make the residents of Ukrainian cities fix a rather recognizable, so-called «domestic» look behind their balconies, thus creating authentic signs of modern Ukrainian cities. Based on the experience we have learned, we have proposed solutions to such an urban planning problem as the re-exploration and glazing of open balconies in the form of two strategies — pressure and encouragement. The presented theoretical and applied study concerns primarily the post-Soviet Ukrainian balconies. The research is mainly based on Kyiv materials, but the described tendencies are typical for most Ukrainian cities, regardless of their size and geographic location. A note on terminology: this text uses the word «balcony» for all types of spatial forms (rooms), including loggias and small attics, bay windows, etc. We realize that there are differences between these architectural elements, however, for convenience, and also because of the fact that the so-called «original» balcony is the most common in Ukrainian mass development, so the word «balcony» is used there as a generalizing term.

scholarly journals Pamięć autobiograficzna w czasach cyfryzacji

2018 ◽  
pp. 137-160
Author(s):  
Marianna Michałowska
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Technological Methods ◽  
Time Lapse Photography

The analysis of everyday practices focused on photography has always been an important element of the theoretical reflection on the media. Such a social approach can be found in the writings of classics, such as Benjamin, Sontag, Barthes, and Berger, as well as contemporary theorists. In their works one can find reflection on the cultural need to create one’s image both for oneself and for others. In theory, this problem has been formulated in different ways. It may refer to making a family album (Hirsch) or to the selfie as an “extension and enhancement of a long tradition of the self-portrait” (Mirzeoff) or to action that embodies an imagined identity, rooted in communication practices (van Dijck). The gist of those discussions is the perception of oneself and others, and the technological methods of picturing, experiencing, and distributing that perception in society. The paper presents an analysis of the evolution of cultural meanings attributed to the autobiographical memory that affects the concept of identity. Photobiographies can be placed between two extremes: the nineteenth-century belief that “photography cannot flatter,” remembered by Douve Draaisma, and contemporary picture-editing programs. José van Dijck argues that contemporary digital pictures are usually “living” since they can be endlessly modified. The paper has been divided into two parts. One is a short survey of qualitative methods, based on photography and the idea of the autobiographical memory. The other presents biographical artistic practices of Krzysztof Pruszkowski, Nancy Burson, Marek Lalko, and Josef Klammer, as well as autobiographical Internet production (e.g., selfie and time-lapse photography). The conclusion is that the digital media have changed the status of the autobiographical memory by mediatizing its presence in reality.

scholarly journals The formation of social inequality in the everyday practices: the historical perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. L. Polyakova
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Constructivist Approaches

The article analyzes the foundations methods and theoretical limits of the traditional sociological theories of social inequality. These theories do not distinguish methodologically between agence and structure. This makes such a theory of social inequality just a “social taxonomy”. The theories of A. Giddens and P. Bourdieu are viewed as the contemporary theoretical and methodological constructivist approaches to social inequality. They are based on the notions of “social practices”, “symbolic categorization”, “distinction”, “life style” (P. Bourdieu) and “reflexive structuration” (A. Giddens). The analysis demonstrates the lack of historical dimension in these theories. The article proves the need to analyze the basic everyday practices which give rise to social inequality. It is necessary to broaden the sphere of sociological research and use the historical perspective. It should also include as its object the system of social inequality in pre-modern societies. The article strives to achieve this by analyzing such pre-modern social practices of social inequality as inclusion/exclusion based on mechanisms of stigmatization, lanquage and ethuic-religions tradition.

scholarly journals Różnice i granice z perspektywy relacyjnej koncepcji kultury i teorii praktyk społecznych. Przypadek wielkomiejskiego osiedla

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Marcjanna Nóżka ◽  
Marta Smagacz-Poziemska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Taking Care

This article is devoted to the problem of the structuring of groups living in housing settlements in large cities. Referring to the theory of social practices and the findings of empirical research, the authors show the importance of analyzing the everyday practices of housing settlements for a better understanding of the mechanisms of social production and reproduction of differences. In interpreting the research material, they show that at the level of the housing settlement and through analysis of what would seem to be ordinary activities — for instance, taking care of children, walking a dog, caring for green areas, parking, or guarding — people create, negotiate, and contest borders, reproducing and modifying more or less permanent socio-spatial arrangements. These arrangements, although they are described by the term “neighborhood,” significantly depart from the understanding of “neighborhood” in the spirit of twentieth-century sociology — as an arrangement of relations and dependence between people resulting from their nearness of residence.

scholarly journals Monkey Dance Transformation And Displacement: From Traditional Performance To Urban Everydayness

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Anton Sutandio
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Street Performance ◽  
New Space ◽  
Traditional Performance

This research attempts to investigate how the monkey dance, a traditional mobile performance from village to village, transforms and displaces itself into a semi-permanent urban street performance as the effect of modernization and globalization. The research is closely relevant to the theme of the everyday life on the relation between art and the social. Doger monyet (monkey dance) performance has always been regarded as the marginal art/culture. Its place has always been among the mid-lower class of society, thus when it changes its mode and place of performance, questions and curiosity arises. This phenomenon requires a re-examination of the cultural transformation effect to everyday life. This research attempts to answer several issues regarding the phenomena: how the performance negotiates its way to the urban everyday life and its everydayness; how it manages to place itself within the urban space; how it deals with the authority and the urban dwellers, and what its future is going to be like in the new space.

A Typology of International Judicial Practices

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L Dunoff ◽  
Mark A Pollack
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
International Courts ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Judicial Opinions

This chapter discusses the inner working of ICs, such as the drafting of judicial opinions; practices concerning separate opinions; the role of language and translation; and the roles of third parties. It also presents a preliminary effort to identify and examine the everyday practices of international judges. In undertaking this task, the authors draw selectively upon a large literature on ‘practice theory’ that has only rarely been applied to international law in general or to international courts in particular. A typology and synoptic overview of practices is presented.

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