The Societal Impacts of Covid-19: A Transnational Perspective

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DOI :10.26650/B/SS49.2021.006.04   IUP :10.26650/B/SS49.2021.006.04    Tam Metin (PDF)

“Staying at Home”: A Rhythmanalysis of Self-quarantine

Fatma Güzin Ağca Varoğlu

The pandemic has caused important transformations in our everyday lives. Home has lost its central feature of being a daily cyclical station, becoming the only place for self-quarantine. At this point, home life intertwined with that of work. This study aims to establish the experiences with rhythmic phenomena, which explains the effect of the social practices on everyday life of a ‘house-academic’ during self-quarantine. In this regard, I examine my autoethnographic experiences during my threemonth self-quarantine period with the rhythmanalytical view of Lefebvre, which allows me to express the effect of practices on everyday lives. I suggest that autoethnographic writing will enable me to give a perspective on my life transformed by Covid-19, based on body, performance, and experience. Home has transformed into a pre-school in the morning and a university in the evening, just contrary to the way of living before the pandemic. It acquired a syncopated rhythmic order, from arrhythmia to eurhythmia, thus staging the transformation of the spatial experience. In these unprecedented times, guest practices such as homeschooling and distance education, becoming henceforth a part of our lives, have turned everyday life into a stage of new struggles.


Anahtar Kelimeler: Autoethnography, Covid-19, Everyday Life, Home, Rhythmanalysis

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