THE SOCIAL LIFE OF BUSYNESS

Book ID/图书代码： 04331424C00016

English Summary/英文概要： Clare Holdsworth develops an account of everyday busyness by identifying busyness with a relational interpretation of time. She analyses a variety of secondary data sources – one-day diaries, self-help books on busyness and time management, accounts of a writing day and interviews about family work and time – and combines these analyses with personal observations. By revealing busyness as the point at which we negotiate our own responsibilities and those of other people, and by showcasing how experiences of busyness are very varied, Holdsworth concludes that the tactics we use to deal with excessive busyness and the habits we develop in relation to it need to recognise the relational status of busyness. Rather than assuming that busyness is an issue that should be resolved by helping individuals manage their time better, she argues that busyness should be thought of as a collective challenge.

This book encourages us to understand that time-management solutions need to focus on the spatial and temporal distributions of responsibilities and how people manage these responsibilities. It represents a timely call for collective responses to busyness in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has intensified the unequal distribution of responsibilities.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我們的忙碌是因為我們有太多事要做嗎?還是因為我們處於一個忙碌的社交人際關係?

克萊爾·霍爾茲沃斯（Clare Holdsworth）透過將忙碌與時間的關係性解讀相結合，建構了日常忙碌的描述。她分析了各種二手資料來源——一日日記、關於忙碌和時間管理的自助書籍、寫作記錄以及關於家庭工作和時間的訪談——並將這些分析與個人觀察相結合。透過揭示忙碌是我們協調自身和他人責任的關鍵點，並展示忙碌體驗的多樣性，霍爾茲沃斯得出結論：我們需要把我們忙碌的關係狀態，與我們應對過度忙碌的策略以及和之相關的習慣一起思考。她認為，忙碌不應被視為一個能透過時間管理來解決的個人問題，而應被視為一項集體挑戰。

本書鼓勵我們理解，時間管理解決方案需要關注責任的空間和時間分佈，以及人們如何管理這些責任。本書及時呼籲大家共同應對新冠疫情後造成的忙碌局面，因為疫情加劇了責任分配不均的問題。(Zoe)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 克萊爾‧霍爾茲沃斯（Clare Holdsworth）是英國基爾大學地質、地理與環境學院的社會地理學教授。她是利弗休姆大學傑出研究獎學金（2018-2021）獲得者，著有《家庭與親密關係的流動性》（2013）。

Clare Holdsworth is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geology, Geography and the Environment at Keele University, UK. She is the recipient of a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2018-2021) and author of Family and Intimate Mobilities (2013).

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