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Título: | Backpacks, Driving, Fun and Farewell: Examining the Ritual Experience of the Weekend amongst Non-resident Parents and their Children |
Autor(es): | Costa, Rosalina |
Editor(es): | Ebrey, Jill Walton, John K. |
Palavras Chave: | non-resident parenthood leisure family fathering time ritual |
Data: | 2014 |
Editora: | Taylor & Francis |
Citação: | COSTA, Rosalina Pisco (2014). «Backpacks, Driving, Fun and Farewell: Examining the Ritual Experience of the Weekend amongst Non-resident Parents and their Children», Leisure Studies (Special Issue ‘The Weekend’, Guest Editors: Jill Ebrey & John K. Walton). Vol. 33 (2): 164-184. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2013.833287 (ISSN: 0261-4367) |
Resumo: | If not in reality, then in the cultural imaginary of Western society, the weekend
is often pictured as a pilgrimage site for families. By particularly focusing on the
experience of the weekend amongst non-resident parents and their child(ren),
this article offers a simultaneously new and innovative gaze on the issue. Drawing
on middle-class non-resident parents’ accounts collected through episodic
interviews, it explores the beginning, the middle and the ending of those
fortnightly weekends. Making use of a qualitative approach, key moments of
anticipation, experience and farewell are examined, and the main features highlighted.
Using a sociological perspective, the findings suggest that whilst outside
the week, its promise is to synchronise everyone under a same family clock in
the view of a ‘quality’ and ‘special’ time; inside the weekend, non-resident
parents and their children experience a family ritual. In between the expectation
and joy in the anticipation and the sadness and the sorrow of farewell, a
‘different’ time disrupts the daily life, and imprints a ‘unique’ and ‘special’
occasion. Always ephemeral, the weekend is, thus, unveiled as a liminal time
span, not least as far as post-separation parenting is concerned. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/13395 |
ISSN: | 0261-4367 |
Tipo: | article |
Aparece nas Colecções: | SOC - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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