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chrononormativity

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

Noun

chrononormativity (countable and uncountable, plural chrononormativities)

  1. the use of time to organize individuals toward maximum productivity; for example, the appropriate time range to start working, have children, or to retire.
    • Central to Freeman’s argument are the concepts of chrononormativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity2010 November, Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds : Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories, Duke University, →ISBN, →OCLC
    • 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...2020, Anna Wanka, “No time to waste – How the social practices of temporal organisation change in the transition from work to retirement”, in Time & Society, volume 29, number 2, pages 494-517

Forms of chrononormativity

pluralchrononormativities

Origin of chrononormativity

From chrono- + normativity.

Questions about chrononormativity

What does chrononormativity mean?
Chrononormativity means the use of time to organize individuals toward maximum productivity; for example, the appropriate time range to start working, have children, or to retire.
What part of speech is chrononormativity?
Chrononormativity is a noun.
What is the plural of chrononormativity?
The plural of chrononormativity is chrononormativities.

Words near chrononormativity in the dictionary

  1. chrononaut
  2. chrononauts
  3. chrononic
  4. chrononomy
  5. chrononormativities
  6. chrononormativity
  7. chronons
  8. chrononutrition
  9. chrononym
  10. chrononyms
  11. chronopathic

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