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Likewise, relevant questions range from the spatial dimensions to the politics and ethics of habit and disruption.\n\nIn producing this volume, we readily acknowledge that it has sometimes been easier to document than to explain shifts in cycles and temporal orders. Although they do not provide all the answers, the inquiries assembled here provide a starting point and suggest a number of paths towards a new synthesis. One such route involves closer interaction with theories of practice. In recent years, the theory of practice has attracted growing interest in the social sciences (Schatzki 2001; Shove and Pantzar 2005; Warde 2005; Warde et al. 2007). To date, empirical studies have tended to follow the development of individual practices over time. As discussed in several chapters, rhythms are usefully understood as bundles of everyday practices, or, to be precise, they are achievements of coordinating and stabilizing relationships between practices. A shift in one practice, say having a quick daily shower instead of a longer but only weekly bath, will impinge on this bundle. Understanding the rhythmic richness and modulations of everyday life therefore requires a move from single practices to a focus on their interactive dynamics and coordination. This raises questions about how practices with different rhythmic properties can amplify, enable or cancel out each other. In combination, these observations call for further research on the spectrum of rhythmic performance in everyday life, ranging from successful synchronization to tension and disruption.\n\nA second implication for research arises from the recognition of rupture and stress as integral features of ‘normality’ as well as routine (see Löfgren and Wilk 2006). Everyday life, in this view, appears as a more open, fluid terrain that, to reproduce itself, requires and involves a lot of fixing, frustration and coping. This, perhaps, does not produce the picture of heroic resistance as envisaged by Certeau, but it does emphasize the role of agency and mentality, putting back into the frame individuals and their ways of coping with strain. Habits and routines, in this view, appear less as external forces that become absorbed through techniques of governmentality, as some Foucauldians would have it, and much more as the result of an interplay between internally produced rhythms, the strains resulting from coordination between practices themselves, and associated pressures and opportunities for temporal change arising from technologies and social agencies. If disruptions are unique moments that allow us to see the braiding and unbraiding of rhythmic achievements at times of stress, it is worth debating the merits of deliberate disruption as a kind of research strategy.\n\nTime has the curious quality of being both a completely mundane everyday experience and a complete abstraction which cannot be easily or objectively described or explained. The overall goal of this book is to bring these two qualities of time closer together, to help us bridge the gap between common experience and high theory in a way which is productive of new insights. No single discipline, science or philosophy can achieve this connection on its own. The three editors of this collection, who come from history, sociology and anthropology, and all the diverse authors have worked together to construct a shared set of terms and concepts which establish a transdisciplinary (or supra-disciplinary) space where new ideas flourish. For all the participants, this has been perhaps the most valuable reward of the common project.\n\n10\n\nElizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk","previous_page":9,"next_page":11}