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dc.contributor.authorAlwyn, Jeni
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:22:42Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:22:42Z
dc.date.created2008-05-14T04:38:46Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2519
dc.description.abstract

This is a thesis about time. It is sited in Perth, Western Australia. Like other Australian states, Western Australia has a modern market system economy and enjoys, comparative to other countries with a market system economy, well developed social welfare and public education systems. The thesis shows how a set of fifteen people from Perth, Western Australia, who had all experienced a change in their domestic arrangements, understood time in the domestic sphere. Drawing upon their representations and constructions of their lives, and focusing on the concept of caring, this work demonstrates how temporal concepts can be utilised to control and limit choices these people have made in their lives.The evidence, collected through a series of open-ended and on-going discussions, is synthesized with theory, particularly the work of Barbara Adam. To Adam, an understanding of time involves appreciating the complexity of time. To gain such an understanding requires a research paradigm that allows this. Such an understanding requires stepping outside Cartesian dualistic thinking, including entrenched notions such as gendered time, and, an appreciation that differing temporal concepts exist and are utilised as mechanisms of control.

dc.languageen
dc.publisherCurtin University
dc.subjecttime
dc.subjectWestern Australia
dc.subjectdomestic sphere
dc.titleOne thing at a time, one thing after another : an inquiry into time in the domestic sphere.
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.educationLevelPhD
curtin.thesisTypeTraditional thesis
curtin.departmentSchool of Social Sciences
curtin.identifier.adtidadt-WCU20030602.144928
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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