ABSTRACT
To achieve the goals of various projects, people have to create couplings in the time-space between themselves and other individuals of different kinds. Time-geography provides concepts and methods to study such time-space couplings in everyday life. People’s ideas and projects are realized through their performance of activities in the course of time and then many time-space couplings must be considered, whether the activities are performed in social isolation or together with others. Thus, knowledge about people’s performance of activities is a key to understand everyday life. One methodological tool for gaining knowledge about everyday life and its constituents is people’s time-geographic diaries. This is the starting point for Chapter 7, which first presents time-geographical ways to do research using people’s diaries. Second, it presents time-geographic research about everyday life, at individual and aggregate levels. Time-geographic diary methods are used, often in combination with other approaches, as a means to help people handle difficulties in fitting activities in their various projects into the limited time-space available and other people’s expectations.
