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The formation of subjects’ temporal frames of thought and action has long been central to the study of social stratifcation. However, theorisation of these processes has tended to focus on highly institutionalised environments in the global North. By contrast, the peripheries of Brazilian cities constitute “heterogeneous felds” of subjectivity formation, in which state institutions act in highly uneven ways and coexist with other actors and processes. To account for these contextual diferences, this article proposes we reimagine linear processes of social reproduction, characteristic of structuralist models, as processes of “individuation”, whereby subjects emerge through interaction with heterogeneous pre-individual felds. As they individuate, subjects encounter diverse “rhythms”, generating experiences of “eurhythmia” and “arrythmia” that infuence individual decisions and shape life trajectories. To illustrate the approach, these analytical tools are applied to case studies of three young people drawn from ethnographic research conducted in the periphery of São Paulo.
Author(s): Richmond MA
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Subjectivity
Year: 2021
Volume: 14
Pages: 19-35
Online publication date: 19/05/2021
Acceptance date: 26/04/2021
Date deposited: 20/11/2023
ISSN (print): 1755-6341
ISSN (electronic): 1755-635X
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-021-00114-3
DOI: 10.1057/s41286-021-00114-3
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