An Introduction to the Special Issue

Abstract

Introduction In July 2020 the authors in this special issue assembled at a digital conference amidst a global pandemic-an experience that seemed in many ways to defy time. Bourdieu's theory of practice combines space and time, as bodily activity in part produces space, while also existing in relationship with time-lending habitus spatial and temporal dimensions (Bourdieu 1977 and 1990 [1980];Munn 1992, 106). Schatzki also brings futurity to bear on the question of time, space, and activity, emphasizing the teleological nature of practice as being oriented toward a particular imagined end or goal (2010). Capitalist time "acts as the basis for the universal measure of value in labour, debt, and exchange relationships" and so is in conflict with lived experiences of time, creating temporal textures that "thicken with ethical problems, impossible dilemmas, and difficult orchestrations" (Bear 2014, 6-7).