Chrononormativity

Central to Freeman’s argument are the concepts of chrononormativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity

the concept refers to the ‘interlocking temporal schemes necessary for genealogies of descent and for the mundane workings of everyday life’ (xxii) that ‘may include (but are not exclusive to) ideas about the “right” time for particular life stages’ (Riach et al., 2014: 1678), like age-defined periods of compulsory education, the right to vote or marry, and the ‘right time’ to retire.