@inbook{mckelvy_2022, title={Time of Our Lives}, url={https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4128-2.ch004}, DOI={10.4018/978-1-6684-4128-2.ch004}, abstractNote={Drawing from interviews about lives that did not go as expected, the author argues that people reproduce inequality in friendship relationships by leaning into aspects of white supremacy culture and the American achievement ideology—namely, the desire for control, perfectionism, and individualism—when comparing the pace of their lives to those of their friends. Until participants could feel secure about where they were in life, these comparisons simmered competition, self-blame, resentment of peers, and isolation. Striving for these ideals also covertly protects the ideologies of dominant groups without having to name any systems of oppression or their beneficiaries. In the end, interview participants often reproduced (as much as they challenged) cultural understandings of a well-lived life, but one way to combat inequality is to transform expectations for compulsory progress.}, author={McKelvy, Josephine Ngo}, year={2022}, month={May} }
 @article{elliott_mckelvy_bowen_2017, title={Marking time in ethnography: Uncovering temporal dispositions}, volume={18}, ISSN={["1741-2714"]}, DOI={10.1177/1466138116655360}, abstractNote={ In this paper, we reflect on how time is appraised, organized, and managed by a group of researchers conducting an ethnography of 12 low-income families. We develop the concept of temporal dispositions: perceptions and preferences around time that in turn shape temporal practices. The concept of temporal dispositions encapsulates individuals’ background and training, agency and reflexivity, and the dynamic nature of ongoing social life and interactions through which temporal meanings may change or take on new symbolic weight. Overlaid upon each of these are larger social structures and power relations that affirm some temporal dispositions and stigmatize others. We conclude by considering the implications for ethnographic fieldworkers. We argue that analyzing the many ways researchers and participants navigate and perceive time offers insight into unspoken temporal assumptions, ideologies, and inequalities. }, number={4}, journal={ETHNOGRAPHY}, author={Elliott, Sinikka and McKelvy, Josephine Ngo and Bowen, Sarah}, year={2017}, month={Dec}, pages={556–576} }