Covid time
Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250436 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ella Butler (School of Archaeology and Anthropology Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia), D Lupton (0000-0003-2658-4430, Vitalities Lab Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture Goodsell Building University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney New South Wales Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | e13857-e13857 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13857 |
| PMID | 39476331 |
| OpenAlex | W4403920502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 49 |
Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, several ways of understanding time have emerged: what we may call 'COVID time'. Based on 40 qualitative online interviews in 2022 with Australians living across the continent, this article examines how people situated themselves and COVID-19 in historical time. It further explores how material aspects, place and space (or 'pandemic materialities') factored into lived experiences and temporal imaginaries. We focus on how time-related concepts such as synchronisation and the definition of crises and events are interrelated in the participants' understandings of COVID as either over or a continuing crisis. The sociomaterial dimensions that served to alert people to risk and encourage them to engage in preventive action are identified as ways in which COVID time was experienced, remembered, understood and imagined. While some respondents claimed that the present moment was 'post-COVID', for others, the pandemic was far from over in 2022 and indeed stretched into the future. We use a sociomaterial lens to show how respondents portray the 'temporal technologies' and 'objectifications' of the event of COVID-19-the tangible materialisations of its temporal status as either relegated to the past or continuing as a mode of present and future crisis
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Action (physics) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Pandemic · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Situated · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Medicine
Objectification
What Is an Event?
Communicating health crisis
Toward good practice in thematic analysis
Attitudes to Covid-19 Vaccines Among Australians During the Delta Variant Wave
Australians' experiences of Covid-19 during the early months of the crisis
From risks to catastrophes
Afterword
Temporal technologies of epidemics
Situating ‘careful surveillance’
Reworldings’
The day everything changed’
Dual‐earner parent couples’ work and care during Covid‐19
Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times
The rules are all over the place’
Covid futures
The Media and Communications in Australia
From "It Has Stopped Our Lives" to "Spending More Time Together Has Strengthened Bonds
Hope and everyday crisis
The uneven distribution of futurity
After supersynchronisation
Living through and with the global HIV/Aids pandemic
Sociomaterialities of health, risk and care during Covid-19
Framing the pandemic
Rural older adults' resilience in the context of Covid-19
Synchronization of the Corona Crisis
Introduction
We may be long in the tooth, but it makes us tough
Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel
The Chronopolitics of Covid-19
Remembering and Narrativising Covid-19
Praying for More Time
Conceptualising 'materialities of care
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |