’At skynde sig langsomt’: Ungdomsliv, ventetid og pandemi. (Danish)

‘Making Haste Slowly’: Youth, Waiting and the Pandemic. (English)

The COVID-19 pandemic deeply impacted the temporalities of children’s and young people’s everyday lives in the Nordic countries. Young people experienced the COVID-19 pandemic as a long wait requiring new ways of passing the time. The lockdown resulted in temporal deceleration in relation to children’s and young people’s active everyday lives. What do you do when you suddenly find yourself in a waiting position that can last days, weeks or even years? How do you organize time and find a rhythm in life? This article discusses waiting as a special temporal phenomenon and concept in youth research. The aim of the article is to develop new perspectives on waiting, focusing on young people’s everyday lives, temporal horizons, and images of the future. The article draws on anthropological studies of time/waiting, as well as empirical studies of the lives of children and young people during the pandemic. It explores a turbulent societal era in relation to the rhythm of the lives of young people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19-pandemien havde stor indflydelse på nordiske børn og unges temporalitet i hverdagen. De unge oplevede pandemien som en lang venten (”waiting”), hvor man var nødt til at ”få tiden til at gå” på helt nye måder. Nedlukningen medførte en deceleration af tiden i forhold til, hvordan den ellers føles/opleves i børns og unges aktive hverdagsliv. Hvad skal man gøre, når man pludselig befinder sig i en venteposition, der kan vare i et par dage, nogle uger eller flere år? Hvordan skal man organisere tiden og finde en rytme i livet? I denne artikel diskuterer jeg venten som et særligt temporalt fænomen og begreb i ungdomsforskningen. Formålet med bidraget er at videreudvikle idéer om ventetid med fokus på unges hverdagsliv, tidshorisonter/tempo og fremtidsperspektiver. I artiklen, der i sin redegørelse kombinerer antropologiske studier af tid/venten med empiriske studier af børn og unge under COVID-19-pandemien, analyseres urolige og turbulente tiders indflydelse på ungdomslivets temporale rytme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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