What is it about?
Explains rhythmanalysis space-time-energy dialectic and how it can be used first as a conceptual frame to analyse research data on ageing and then rhythmanalysis might be used as a tool-kit (method) to guide the gathering of data, particularly in contexts where participant observation is not possible.
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Why is it important?
Provides some 'epistemological sophistication' to ethnographic research. Explores why ethnographers typically set a year as a benchmark. Distils some principles from rhythmanalysis (isorhythmia, arrhythmia, eurhythmia, recuperation, etc) to guide data-gathering and its analysis.
Perspectives
Is rhythmanalysis the 'holy grail' of social science? Is it, as Lefebvre intended, a theory that is able to "theorize everyday life, ‘from the most natural (physiological, biological) to the most sophisticated’"?
Dr Siew-Peng Lee
Brunel University
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This page is a summary of: Ethnography in absentia: Applying Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis in impossible-to-research spaces, Ethnography, April 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1466138116641438.
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