'Trying to keep up': Intersections of identity, space, time and rhythm in women student carer auto/biographical accounts

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Cullen, F., Barker, J. and Alldred, P. 2020. 'Trying to keep up': Intersections of identity, space, time and rhythm in women student carer auto/biographical accounts. in: Parsons, J. and Chappell, A. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/biography Cham Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 241-262
Chapter title'Trying to keep up': Intersections of identity, space, time and rhythm in women student carer auto/biographical accounts
AuthorsCullen, F., Barker, J. and Alldred, P.
Abstract

Geographies of Care and Caring is a burgeoning area of geographical thought, although auto/biographical caring accounts have been less explored. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with women students (from different generations) who are in education with a range of caring responsibilities (‘student carers’), this chapter explores how auto/biographies are laden with spatial and temporal rhythms. Drawing upon theorisations of time and rhythm (Lefebvre, 2013, Elden, 2004), and feminist work exploring the gendered emotional and temporal dynamics of care (Hochschild, 1989; Maher 2009; Rogers and Weller, 2013) we explore how participants negotiate complex, shifting and multiply-intersecting rhythms across space and time to undertake care and construct identities as student and carer. In doing so, we consider the benefits of incorporating spatial and temporal rhythms within auto/biographical accounts.

Page range241-262
Book titleThe Palgrave Handbook of Auto/biography
EditorsParsons, J. and Chappell, A.
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Place of publicationCham
ISBN
Hardcover9783030319731
Paperback9783030319762
Electronic9783030319748
Publication dates
Online29 Apr 2020
Print29 Apr 2020
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Deposited16 Jul 2019
Accepted01 May 2019
Output statusPublished
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This is an author's accepted manuscript version of a chapter published in The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/biography. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31974-8_11

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31974-8_11
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