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English
Etymology
From chrono- + normativity.
Noun
chrononormativity (countable and uncountable, plural chrononormativities)
- the use of time to organize individuals toward maximum productivity; for example, the appropriate time range to start working, have children, or to retire.
2010 November, Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds : Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories, Duke University, →ISBN, →OCLC:Central to Freeman’s argument are the concepts of chrononormativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity
2020, Anna Wanka, “No time to waste – How the social practices of temporal organisation change in the transition from work to retirement”, in Time & Society, volume 29, number 2, pages 494-517:the concept refers to the ‘interlocking temporal schemes necessary for genealogies of descent and for the mundane workings of everyday life’ (xxii) that ‘may include (but are not exclusive to) ideas about the “right” time for particular life stages’ (Riach et al., 2014: 1678), like age-defined periods of compulsory education, the right to vote or marry, and the ‘right time’ to retire.
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