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‘It feels as if time has come to a standstill’: Institutionalised everyday lives among youth with a mental illness
- Source :
- Journal of Youth Studies. 20:959-973
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- This paper focuses on the everyday lives of young people with a severe mental illness living temporarily at a social psychiatric housing facility in Denmark. In the paper we take a temporal approach to the analysis of this and we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s work on rhythm analysis to investigate the differences between the rhythms of everyday life within the institution and the rhythms of what is perceived as the everyday life of ‘ordinary’ youth. We also show how digital technologies play a central part in these institutionalised everyday lives by creating connections as well as disruptions between different time-spaces. Centrally, we point to the positive and negative consequences this has for the young peoples’ sense of self. Empirically, the paper is based on a four-month ethnographic fieldwork at the housing facility in 2014.
- Subjects :
- Rhythm analysis
Sociology and Political Science
Institutionalisation
05 social sciences
Psychology of self
General Social Sciences
050801 communication & media studies
Gender studies
Boredom
Mental illness
medicine.disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
0508 media and communications
Ethnography
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Sociology
medicine.symptom
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Everyday life
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14699680 and 13676261
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1ed2dbcc811f97de310a41be9904d860