Meaning of chrononormativity | Babel Free

Definitions

the use of time to organize individuals toward maximum productivity; for example, the appropriate time range to start working, have children, or to retire.

countable, uncountable

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“Central to Freeman’s argument are the concepts of chrononormativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity”

“the concept refers to the ‘interlocking temporal schemes necessary for genealogies of descent and for the mundane workings of everyday life’ (xxii) that ‘may include (but are not exclusive to) ideas about the “right” time for particular life stages’ (Riach et al., 2014: 1678), like age-defined periods of compulsory education, the right to vote or marry, and the ‘right time’ to retire.”

CEFR level