Ron Padgett’s Inner-Outer Spaces

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmine Shamma
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Spatial Poetics ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines a range of poems by Ron Padgett which muse on lived-in spaces. Accordingly, this chapter illuminates the “nuts and bolts” of Padgett’s poems through close readings, coupling formal criticism with “gossip” of interview material to pursue more decisive statements regarding the distinct ways in which this form is unique in the way that it registers sought or actual lived in space. This becomes particularly possible within this close examination of Padgett’s poetry. As Padgett utilizes a particularly supple sense of poetic form, exhibiting a control on the page that reflects a control of thought, over and above the rigid limitations of urban space and structures of inherited form, he constructs metaphors that pursue the explosion of structural constraints. This chapter resists shying away from the ramifications of such explosions, ending this study of spatial poetics in the contemporary moment.

scholarly journals The Problem of Coordination and the Pursuit of Structural Constraints in Psychology

2021 ◽  
pp. 174569162097477
Author(s):  
David Kellen ◽  
Clintin P. Davis-Stober ◽  
John C. Dunn ◽  
Michael L. Kalish
Keyword(s):  
Functional Relationship ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Theoretical Progress ◽  
Slow Progress ◽  
Empirical Means ◽  
The Way

Paul Meehl’s famous critique detailed many of the problematic practices and conceptual confusions that stand in the way of meaningful theoretical progress in psychological science. By integrating many of Meehl’s points, we argue that one of the reasons for the slow progress in psychology is the failure to acknowledge the problem of coordination. This problem arises whenever we attempt to measure quantities that are not directly observable but can be inferred from observable variables. The solution to this problem is far from trivial, as demonstrated by a historical analysis of thermometry. The key challenge is the specification of a functional relationship between theoretical concepts and observations. As we demonstrate, empirical means alone cannot determine this relationship. In the case of psychology, the problem of coordination has dramatic implications in the sense that it severely constrains our ability to make meaningful theoretical claims. We discuss several examples and outline some of the solutions that are currently available.

scholarly journals The Problem of Coordination and the Pursuit of Structural Constraints in Psychology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kellen ◽  
Clintin Davis-Stober ◽  
John C Dunn ◽  
Michael Kalish
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Available P ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Progress ◽  
Functional Relations ◽  
Slow Progress ◽  
Empirical Means ◽  
The Way

Paul Meehl’s famous critique laid out in detail many of the pathological practices and conceptual confusions that stand in the way of meaningful theoretical progress inpsychological science. Integrating some of Meehl’s points, we argue that one of the reasons for the slow progress in psychology is the failure to acknowledge the problem of coordination. This problem arises whenever we attempt to measure quantities that are not directly observable, but can be inferred from observable variables. The solution to this problem is far from trivial, as demonstrated by a historical analysis of thermometry. Also, it is not a problem that can be solved by empirical means. At its center is the need for a clear understanding of the functional relations between theoretical concepts and observations. In the case of psychology, the problem of coordination has dramatic implications in the sense that it severely limits our ability to make meaningful theoretical claims. We discuss several examples and lay out some of the solutions that are currently available.

scholarly journals How do places of origin influence access to mobility in the global age? An analysis of the influence of vulnerability and structural constraints on Senegalese translocal livelihood strategies

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Schöfberger
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Global Age ◽  
The Way

Abstract. Literature has often underlined the relevance of mobility for modern lifestyles. However, it has frequently overlooked that mobility has long been the rule in Senegal. There, mobility has allowed households to cope with environmental and economic vulnerability. Over the last decades, households have extended their traditional mobility through internal and international migration. This paper investigates how place-related vulnerability and structural constraints influence the way Senegalese households construct translocal spaces and livelihood strategies in the global age. For this purpose, a multi-sited ethnographic study has been conducted at four villages in Senegal and at two immigration destinations in Italy and Spain. The empirical results show that vulnerability and structural constraints in the home place do not prevent households from adopting strategies based on mobility, but rather influence the composition of translocal spaces, the ability to move between places, and the construction of translocal livelihood strategies.

scholarly journals Branding Stratford: Social Representation and the Re-making of Place

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Desiderio
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

As part of the societal world, architecture and urban space do not have any ‘objective’ quality. They are representations. Their meaning is produced through the negotiation and interaction of individuals, groups and classes. Yet, such ‘subjective’ meanings do have a ‘material’ relevance, as they reflect a dialectical process between the functions, forms, ownership and practices of space. They reveal construal and construction: the way in which architectural spaces are represented on the one hand, and the way in which they are physically constructed and used on the other. Nowhere does this become more evident in our current society than in the arguments around urban renewal and regeneration. The Westfield Stratford City is a typical example. Part of the vast process of the urban regeneration of East London prompted by London 2012 Olympic Games, Westfield is a massive complex of luxury shops, restaurants, bars and five star hotels. It is seen by investors and local and national political authorities as capable of transforming Stratford into a site for shopping, tourism and leisure. It does this in numerous ways, one of which involves reconfiguring the image of the region through the press and media - through visual imagery and linguistic manipulations that promote a neoliberal agenda of gentrification that simultaneously devalue the existent societal structures and communities in the area. This paper offers a Critical Discourse Analysis of the manipulation of Stratford’s image by government, business and the media and suggests that the purely financially motivated misrepresentation it reveals, is typical of the urban regeneration ethos at work across the developed world today.

Space Syntax Approach for Articulating Space and Social Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelbaseer A. Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Urban Models ◽  
Spatial Measures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter sets out to provide a detailed description of the relationship between space and society. It begins by discussing how people co-live in spaces and how such spaces co-live as communities. Understanding the relationship between space and society requires shedding light on how (1) communities emerge and work and (2) people build their social network. The chapter's main premise is that spatial configuration is the container of activities and the way we construct our cities influences our social life. Therefore, the urban environment should be analyzed mathematically using urban models in order to evaluate and predict future urban policies. The chapter reviews a space-people paradigm, Space Syntax. It defines, elaborates, and interprets its main concepts and tools, showing how urban space is modelled and described in terms of various spatial measures including connectivity, integration, depth, choice, and isovist properties.

The Work of the Words

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-98
Author(s):  
Megan Kaes Long
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Text Setting ◽  
Tonal Language ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Organizational Framework ◽  
Musical Systems ◽  
Regular Text ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

Composers of homophonic partsongs developed formulaic text-setting schemas that translated poetic meter into musical meter: line lengths determine phrase lengths, poetic accents establish musical accents, and poetic form controls cadences and formal boundaries. Consequently, text-setting establishes an increasingly deep mensural hierarchy. At the same time, schematic text-setting codifies an organizational framework that parallels the way the mind constructs musical meter. According to dynamic attending theory, listener attention peaks in response to environmental regularities; this theory suggests that regular metrical frameworks like those in homophonic partsongs facilitate tonal expectation by drawing listener attention toward metrically accented harmonic events. Regular text-setting contributes to musical meter in a period when mensural structures are giving way to metrical ones. A new metrical style and a new tonal language emerge in tandem in the early seventeenth century, and the balletto repertoire highlights the close relationship between these evolving musical systems.

scholarly journals Consuming heritage: counter-uses of the city and gentrification

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rogerio Proença Leite
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Policy ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Based on research in the old Recife Quarter in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco state, Brazil, this study examines processes of gentrification in areas of heritage value. The article focuses on the way in which these urban policies have transformed cultural heritage into a commodity, and urban space into social relationships mediated by consumerism. I argue that heritage sites that undergo processes of gentrification create strong spatial segregation and generate an appropriation of space by the excluded population that takes the form of counter-uses, undermining the uses imagined by urban and heritage policy makers.

scholarly journals Subterranean to Skyline—Street Trees as Boundary Agents in the Composition of the Street Section

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Deborah E. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Street Trees ◽  
Full Profile ◽  
Below Ground ◽  
The Way

Before we parked cars—we parked trees. These ‘parked’ verges, supplanted by parking places during the 1900’s, now present opportunities in cities such as Oslo, looking to cultivate car free, climate resilient, liveable spaces. The prospect of re-parking street trees has a poetic quality, but is not without its challenges. A key feature of street trees are the way they connect, complement, and conflict with other entities across the full profile of the street section—from subterranean to skyline. It is this attribute, we argue, that makes street trees great infrastructural connectors: boundary agents through which urban space above and below ground can be comprehended, diverse practitioners connected, and the agency of street trees in the repository of the street section, foregrounded in urban development and design.

Third World Resistance to International Economic and Structural Constraints: Assessing the Utility of the Right to Health in the Context of the TRIPS Agreement

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-429
Author(s):  
Daniel Wanjau Muriu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
International Economic ◽  
Third World ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Trips Agreement ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Parallel Importation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article examines the relationship between WTO's TRIPS Agreement, patents and access to affordable medicines in Sub-Saharan Africa. The key role played by transnational corporations (TNCs) in ensuring that intellectual property rights were included in multilateral trade negotiations, and how this influence and power of TNCs has impacted on access to affordable medicine in the region is highlighted. The way in which social movements at both domestic and international levels have sought to use the right to health to resist the power of pharmaceutical TNCs bent on blocking the use by Third World countries of the exceptions or flexibilities in TRIPS, such as parallel importation of medicines and compulsory licensing is analysed. In this connection, the way in which the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC, a social movement in South Africa), used the right to health to oppose a suit filed in South Africa by pharmaceutical TNCs seeking to block legislation enacted for the purpose of enabling parallel importation of medicines, is shown. The article also explains how a network of international organisations and activists in collaboration with Third World countries pushed for the adoption of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health on the basis that access to affordable medicines is a critical element of the right to health. The article argues that the right to health has some limited potential of being used as a means of resistance against international economic forces inimical to the health of Third World peoples. To realise such potential however, one must go beyond using the right to health purely as a legal process or mechanism and instead harness the right as a tool to mobilize and exercise agency of Third World peoples in contesting the power of those forces.

scholarly journals “A Little Baby is on the Way:” Botho/Ubuntu and Community-Building in Gaborone Baby Showers

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Elizabeth P. Motswapong ◽  
Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe ◽  
Tshenolo J. Madigele ◽  
Musa W. Dube ◽  
Senzokuhle D. Setume ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Family ◽  
Good Mother ◽  
Additional Member ◽  
Unborn Baby ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe expectation and arrival of a baby has always played a significant role in many societies across the globe. For simple reasons, babies are perceived as blessings from God. Hence, there is the need to shower the mother-to-be and her unborn baby with gifts and advice in preparation for welcoming, not only the bundle of joy, but also the new additional member into the family. The article is based on data that were collected from baby showers in greater Gaborone over a period of twelve months. The concept of Botho/Ubuntu cuts across as one of the major initiatives that drive baby showers. The goal of this paper is to establish what baby showers entail, how these initiatives started and how they are conducted. But most importantly, the paper will argue that baby showers are a community building initiative in the urban space. The paper seeks to establish the extent to which baby showers are gendered, using analytical insights from the theory of the “good mother”.

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