In summary, our purpose is to elaborate chronotope disruption as a sensitizing concept for understanding chronic illness narratives.
Our analysis demonstrated three ways in which chronotope disruption helped identify, and find a way into understanding, important aspects of patients' chronic illness narratives.
Our purpose in this article was to elaborate chronotope disruption as a sensitizing concept for understanding chronic illness narratives, the example being people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
Objectives: This article aims to elaborate chronotope disruption —a changed relation to time and space— as a sensitizing concept for understanding chronic illness narratives.
Being open to the future, retaining hope, and allowing for the possibility of improvement regardless of prognosis is common in chronic illness narratives [ 19, 32].
Conclusions: Chronotope disruption offers a useful sensitizing concept for approaching chronic illness narratives and around which to organize analytical insights and to develop practice.
In this article, we elaborate a little-investigated aspect of chronic illness narratives: the grounding of biographical disturbance in time and space.
Results: The analysis demonstrates how the concept of chronotope disruption helps identify, and understand, important aspects of patients' chronic illness narratives.
We argue here that chronotope disruption offers a particularly useful sensitizing concept (Glaser, 1996), or theoretically informed starting point, for approaching chronic illness narratives and around which to organize analytical insights and to develop practice.
The analysis is presented in three sections, each demonstrating how the concept of chronotope disruption helps identify, and find a way into understanding, important aspects of patients' chronic illness narratives, our example being Type 2 diabetes: (a) medicalized and embodied disruptions, (b) tyranny of the (body) clock, and (c) performing normativity.
