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Reckoning Time in the Barber Shop: A Qualitative Study of a Barber Navigating Time, Temporality, and Rhythm

A'Hearn, Thomas
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386773352

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This dissertation is a qualitative study of a barber and his navigation of time, temporality, and rhythm in his barber shop. Through the use of a multi-part methodology including bricolage (Levi-Strauss, 1966), rhythmanalysis (Lefebvre, 2004), sensory methodology (Pink, 2009), and creative analytic process ethnography (Richardson, 2005), time is reckoned, learned, and taken into account in a variety of forms. In combination with traditional elements of qualitative and ethnographic research, photography, literature, poetry, and metaphor are employed to represent and evoke everyday life in this dynamic barber shop. Findings support the use of creative qualitative methodology to research complex places in everyday life. In particular, this dissertation highlights the ways in which the barber, as owner-operator of a barber shop, navigates his time in multiple, rhythmic ways in response to unpredictable phenomena.
Cynthia Tyson (Advisor)
281 p.
Education
Education, time, methodology, rhythm, everyday life

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  • A'Hearn, T. (2014). Reckoning Time in the Barber Shop: A Qualitative Study of a Barber Navigating Time, Temporality, and Rhythm [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386773352

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • A'Hearn, Thomas. Reckoning Time in the Barber Shop: A Qualitative Study of a Barber Navigating Time, Temporality, and Rhythm . 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386773352.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • A'Hearn, Thomas. "Reckoning Time in the Barber Shop: A Qualitative Study of a Barber Navigating Time, Temporality, and Rhythm ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386773352

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