Across time and space: Examiner and candidate experiences of online doctoral vivas

Practicability of viewing economy not as a mechanism but as an organism is grounded. The concept of "genetic economics" that is considered in time and space is defined. The orders of economic constancy are recommended. "Genetic economics" axiomatic statements are formularized.

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Fictive Mode, ‘Journey to the West’, and Transformation of Space: ‘Ali Mubarak’s Discourses of Modernization

Comparative Critical Studies ◽

10.3366/e1744185408000062 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 331-358

Author(s):

WEN-CHIN OUYANG

Keyword(s):

Cultural Transformation ◽

Recent History ◽

Theoretical Principle ◽

Time And Space ◽

The West ◽

Arab Culture ◽

History Of ◽

Journey To The West

I begin my exploration of ‘Ali Mubarak (1823/4–1893) and the discourses on modernization ‘performed’ in his only attempt at fiction, ‘Alam al-Din (The Sign of Religion, 1882), with a quote from Guy Davenport because it elegantly sums up a key theoretical principle underpinning any discussion of cultural transformation and, more particularly, of modernization. Locating ‘Ali Mubarak and his only fictional work at the juncture of the transformation from the ‘traditional’ to the ‘modern’ in the recent history of Arab culture and of Arabic narrative, I find Davenport's pronouncement tantalizingly appropriate. He not only places the stakes of history and geography in one another, but simultaneously opens up the imagination to the combined forces of time and space that stand behind these two distinct yet related disciplines.

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Afterword: Health, Care, Citizens

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0036 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Stuart Murray

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Health It ◽

Time And Space ◽

And Control

Care’ is a shifting, plural word when used in the context of discussions of health. It suggests attention and compassion when articulated as a verb, but has overtures of regulation and control when used as a noun – to be ‘in care’ is usually not unproblematic. Two chapters in this section – those by Sarah Atkinson and Lucy Burke – speak specifically to the complexities of this idea. As Atkinson makes clear in her chapter, care invokes questions of resource just as much as it outlines interpersonal relationships; it presents what she terms ‘dilemmas, paradoxes and challenges’ when conceived of as a totality and, especially in global contexts, suggests entangled modes of time and space.

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Disciplining Polenta: A Parody on the Politics of Saving Food

Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture ◽

10.1525/gfc.2020.20.2.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Zachary Nowak ◽

Bradley M. Jones ◽

Elisa Ascione

Keyword(s):

Food Products ◽

Social Value ◽

Traditional Food ◽

Traditional Foods ◽

Time And Space ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Scholarly Literature ◽

Identity Creation ◽

The Past ◽

The Social

This article begins with a parody, a fictitious set of regulations for the production of “traditional” Italian polenta. Through analysis of primary and secondary historical sources we then discuss the various meanings of which polenta has been the bearer through time and space in order to emphasize the mutability of the modes of preparation, ingredients, and the social value of traditional food products. Finally, we situate polenta within its broader cultural, political, and economic contexts, underlining the uses and abuses of rendering foods as traditional—a process always incomplete, often contested, never organic. In stirring up the past and present of polenta and placing it within both the projects of Italian identity creation and the broader scholarly literature on culinary tradition and taste, we emphasize that for so-called traditional foods to be saved, they must be continually reinvented.

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