Living Untimely: Towards an Unapologetic Temporality of Living with Chronic Pain
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28-09-2020
Dresda Emma Méndez de la Brena
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8642-2647
Abstract
This article proposes the concept of “living untimely” based on the reflections of Sora, a woman of Moroccan origin, diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Through a critical analysis of temporality from contemporary queer and crip studies, the concept of “living untimely” is explored as a useful analytical category to demonstrate the normative temporal regime that excludes bodies with chronic pain from material and social conditions; bodies that do not adjust to the temporal impositions of modern “healthy” societies. In this sense, “living untimely” is found as a dissident temporality that crosses the markers of normative time through inopportune, inappropriate and unexpected temporal expressions. Two research techniques —qualitative narrative approach, and the use of photography and other artistic expressions— allow us to propose the concept of “living untimely” that can be articulated as a temporal and spatial strategy with critical, as well as emancipatory, potential, since it opens possibilities of living time irreverently.
How to Cite
Méndez de la Brena, D. E. (2020). Living Untimely: Towards an Unapologetic Temporality of Living with Chronic Pain. Papeles De Identidad, 2020(2), papel 235. https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.20969
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Keywords
living untimely, crip temporalities, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, normative
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Kafer, A. (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
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McRuer, R. (2006). Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York: New York University Press.
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Moraga, C. (1988). En el sueño, siempre se me recibe el río. En Moraga, C., y Castillo, A. (Eds.). (1988). Esta puente, mi espalda. Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos. San Francisco: Ims Press.
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