Publication details
V rytmu svého okolí / Geografie „lidí po ztrátě zaměstnání“
| Title in English | In the rhythm of your surrounding / Geography of ‘people after job loss’ |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The chapter deals with the phenomenon of unemployment, or more precisely with the time-space experience of people after losing their job. The chapter focuses on those who have declared that the loss of their job has not caused any existential problems, financial distress, or any other economic difficulty. This experience is especially interesting because uf the acquisition of ‘new’ time, which had been devoted to work before the loss of a job, prolonging the day considerably. The structuring of this newly acquired time after the job loss is the main object of interest of the presented chapter. For this purpose, the pacemaker concept was used to look up the time organisation of everyday activities as a co-ordination of times according to the known timing sources. The timing of everyday activities is conceptually replaced by the rhythm of these activities and time organisation by synchronising with other rhythms. The research question was formulated in the following form: What pacemakers are used by people who do not have financial need after losing their work to organise their everyday activities? In order to respond to this question, 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted with communication partners who had lost their jobs in the last six months and at least 6 weeks had elapsed since their unemployment began. People, after the loss of employment, received an external pacemaker in the form of care for a close person, in the form of accepting an outside rhythm of an institution, or an internal pacemaker in the form of adherence to the time structure of a previous job, the completion of any significant out-of-work project, or the transfer of its daily activities into a ‘timeless’ virtual space. |
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