Publication details
At the intersection: the impact of work and university schedules on daily mobility of working students
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Mobilities |
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| Citation | |
| web | https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2025.2532398 |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2025.2532398 |
| Keywords | Rhythmanalysis; daily mobility; mobility strategies; commuting; working students; rhythms; Lefebvre |
| Description | In recent years, a significant proportion of students have already been employed while studying at university. Consequently, they have to balance their daily activities with work and studies. This research draws on Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis to highlight the existence of two completely distinct rhythms – the work rhythm and the student rhythm – and to demonstrate the possible clash of these rhythms in the everyday lives of university students. The paper elucidates the coexistence of these two rhythms in the context of the daily mobility of working students. The empirical research is based on semistructured interviews conducted in 2024 in the Brno Metropolitan Area (Czechia). The analysis reveals that the coexistence of two different rhythms creates eurhythmic and arrhythmic states, which have a direct impact on students’ mobility strategies. Within eurhythmia, individuals associate mobility between the university and work with multiple meanings, such as transporting as quickly as possible, necessary detour, transition phase or chaining of activities, shaping the structure of their movements in time and space. Due to the variability of constants influencing these rhythms, clashes occur, leading to arrhythmia and changes in meaning and perception of mobility, resulting in new mobility strategies. Variations over time prove the arrhythmia-recuperation-eurhythmia process. |