The “living of time”: Entangled temporalities of home and the city

Blunt, Alison, Ebbensgaard, Casper Laing and Sheringham, Olivia (2021) The “living of time”: Entangled temporalities of home and the city. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46 (1). pp. 149-162. ISSN 0020-2754

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Abstract

This paper explores the entanglements between urban and domestic temporalities in order to understand what it means to live in the city. Inspired by Andrea Zimmerman's 2015 film Estate: a reverie, and drawing on a series of home-city biographies, this paper explores the “living of time” through the memories, experiences, and narratives of residents living on different housing estates near Kingsland Road in Hackney, East London. We address two key questions: how are residents’ experiences of urban living shaped by multi-layered and entangled temporalities of home and the city? What can an understanding of the urban and domestic “living of time” reveal about temporality, home, and the city? We explore the ways in which entangled and multi-scalar “roots” and “routes” chart migration, housing, and family histories for urban residents which, in turn, shape and help to articulate narratives of domestic and urban change in terms of stability and instability. We then turn to the overlapping and/or contested temporalities of urban and domestic lives, whereby residents’ home lives – and their wider ideas about the estate, street, neighbourhood, or city as home – are affected by processes of urban change in complex and often contradictory ways. Finally, we investigate the ways in which home-city temporalities have shaped, and are shaped by, people's hopes and fears for their future homes. Urban dwelling is shaped by multiple and multi-layered temporalities, intertwining the past, present, and future, generations and life courses, and housing, family, and migration histories. The urban and domestic “living of time” reveals how residents adapt to, negotiate, and at times resist processes of change and continuity at home and in the city.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	city,home,housing,neighbourhood,temporality,urban change,geography, planning and development,earth-surface processes,sdg 11 - sustainable cities and communities ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2020 23:58
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 06:43
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76709
DOI:	10.1111/tran.12405

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