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Chapter 14 - Bakhtin’s Chronotope and Routine Dynamics

from Part II - Methodological Issues in Routine Dynamics Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2021

By
Simon Addyman
Edited by
Martha S. Feldman,
Brian T. Pentland,
Luciana D'Adderio,
Katharina Dittrich,
Claus Rerup and
David Seidl
Martha S. Feldman
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Brian T. Pentland
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Luciana D'Adderio
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Katharina Dittrich
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Claus Rerup
Affiliation:
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
David Seidl
Affiliation:
University of Zurich
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Summary

Temporality and spatiality are important features for understanding Routine Dynamics from a process perspective. In this chapter I present Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope as a method for understanding how different configurations of time and space influence the (re)creation of routines. I show the overlap between Dialogism and Routine Dynamics through Bakhtin’s concept of the utterance in dialogue as being both the patterning and performing of action. I then explain the concept of the chronotope before using an empirical example to illustrate it as a tool for analysing time and space configurations, showing how they influence action patterns. I juxtapose this analysis against recent studies in Routine Dynamics that have used the role of talk to understand routine change and show what we might see differently through the lens of the chronotope.

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Routinesroutine dynamicsdialogismchronotopetimespace

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Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics , pp. 196 - 206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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