scholarly journals Tracking the Language of Space and Time, 1948-2008

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-609
Author(s):  
Roderick P. Hart ◽  
Elvin T. Lim
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Public ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Quantitative Approaches

This article explores how contemporary historians can avail themselves of quantitative approaches to examine how elusive concepts like ‘time’ and ‘space’ have been used in the public domain. By making use of specifically designed programs, historians can use digital tools to harness an unprecedented mass of information. This is a particularly important methodological innovation at a time of rapidly expanding data: news, speeches, and commentary are available first electronically, and they are available on countless sites in an unprecedented array of formats. Mastering these sources digitally is not only imperative for the contemporary historian; it also provides essential source material for understanding how language and meanings change over time, between contexts, and across different media.

Language Change and Movement as Seen by Historical Linguistics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Nurse
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Comparative Linguistics ◽  
Language Boundaries ◽  
Over Time

The focus of this chapter is on how languages move and change over time and space. The perceptions of historical linguists have been shaped by what they were observing. During the flowering of comparative linguistics, from the late 19th into the 20th century, the dominant view was that in earlier times when people moved, their languages moved with them, often over long distances, sometimes fast, and that language change was largely internal. That changed in the second half of the 20th century. We now recognize that in recent centuries and millennia, most movements of communities and individuals have been local and shorter. Constant contact between communities resulted in features flowing across language boundaries, especially in crowded and long-settled locations such as most of Central and West Africa. Although communities did mix and people did cross borders, it became clear that language and linguistic features could also move without communities moving.

A method for estimating vegetation change over time and space

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-454
Author(s):  
Li Maihe ◽  
Norbert Kräuchi
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Change ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Commons Governance, Normative Pluralism and the Enduring Role of Custom

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-37
Author(s):  
Christopher Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Normative Pluralism ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Legal Pluralist

The governance of common land in England and Wales is shaped by a mixture of customary and legal norms that can shift and change. Notwithstanding the introduction of legislation for the registration of common land and common rights, custom retains an important role in the governance of common land. This chapter situates custom alongside the other normative rules used to structure the governance of common land. It considers reforms introduced by the Commons Act 2006, including provision for the formation of self-regulating commons councils. It concludes that a legal pluralist analysis that focuses on the functionality of differing customary and legal norms, but which is also sensitive to the sources from which rules derive normativity, is essential if we are to position custom in the hierarchy of norms relevant to the governance of common land, to understand their respective roles and how these can change over time and space, and to appraise their effectiveness.

scholarly journals Mirabai in Popular Imagination

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Ritu Varghese
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Royal Identity ◽  
Swami Vivekananda

The immense popularity of Mirabai, the sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint, transcends time and space. Beliefs have it that she renounced her kshatriya and royal identity for spiritual pursuits in the public domain. She was challenged, critiqued, ostracised, and castigated within her community and was labelled as a woman of questionable character. Mirabai wandered to various places, singing and dancing to bhajans negotiating the public and the private while becoming both virtuous and promiscuous in multiple narratives. Mirabai has been accommodated within the marginalised and subaltern communities and gradually, a community of destitute women has formed around her. With the revival of Mirabai during the Indian ‘nationalist’ period by popular spokespersons such as Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi as an ‘ideal’ and ‘chaste’ historical character in their public speeches and private letters, the promiscuous image of Mirabai, perpetuated through centuries, witnessed transgressions and she was eventually elevated to the status of a saint. This paper with literary, biographical and hagiographical representations explores the mechanism of the paradoxical plane that allowed the promiscuous image of Mirabai to achieve sainthood and become a cult name in the bhakti tradition.

Multi-Hazard Scenarios and Dynamic Risk

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Gill ◽  
Ekbal Hussain ◽  
Bruce Malamud ◽  
Robert Šakić Trogrlić
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multiple Hazards ◽  
Risk Equation ◽  
Dynamic Risk ◽  
Over Time

<p>In this paper, we discuss the dynamic nature of risk through the lens of multi-hazard relationships and scenarios. Disaster risk is commonly expressed as (Risk = Hazard × Exposure × Vulnerability). This expression does not communicate the extent to which each term (and therefore risk and impact) can change over time, and any relationships between the four variables. To better convey and discuss multi-hazards and dynamic risk, in July and August 2020 we held two virtual workshops (40 and 35 participants) as part of the GCRF Tomorrow’s Cities Research Hub, which has as its focus four cities Istanbul, Kathmandu, Nairobi, and Quito, with a particular emphasis on the urban poor. During the two workshops, participants (including those from academia, NGOs, and the public sector) from each city generated multi-hazard scenarios that can be used to improve the understanding of dynamic risk and we highlighted three main examples of dynamic risk: (1) The hazard term can involve multiple hazards, with relationships between hazards, and the likelihood or magnitude of single natural hazards and multi-hazard scenarios varying over time. (2) Both the exposure and vulnerability components of the risk equation change over time, and can contribute to the triggering, amplification (or reduction) of multi-hazard events. (3) Progression through multi-hazard scenarios can influence or drive changes in both exposure and/or vulnerability terms.<strong> </strong>These three statements illustrate the dynamic nature of each component of the risk equation and the existence of relationships between each term. Furthermore, they demonstrate how understanding the multi-hazard landscape and potential multi-hazard scenarios can help to enrich understanding of dynamic risk. This understanding of multi-hazard scenarios can be used to consider potential interventions where risk is dynamic.</p>

Pure English: Wharton and the Elect

2021 ◽  
pp. 196-232
Author(s):  
Emily Coit
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Racial Development ◽  
Van Wyck Brooks ◽  
Over Time

This chapter reads Edith Wharton's writing about race and nation alongside similarly 'ambassadorial' texts by her friend Barrett Wendell. Considering Wharton's French Ways and Their Meaning, 'Amérique en Guerre' and also Backward Glance in light of the antagonism between Wendell and Charles William Eliot, the chapter observes how each thinks about inequality, education, race, and change over time. Liberal, segregationist and eugenicist, Eliot argues for an aristocracy of merit in which the winners will be white; he stands for a liberal, democratic 'Puritan' heritage. Wendell and Wharton affiliate themselves instead with a Dutch, Cavalier tradition that claims whiteness without claiming democracy, and favours warm pleasure over icy rectitude. Sharing nostalgia for an 'Old New England' of Anglo-Saxon purity, they see racial decline where Eliot hails racial development. Less sanguine than Eliot about the possibilities of education, Wharton argues for continuity rather than rapid progress, criticizing 'Puritan' tendencies towards idealism and disruption. To Wendell's students Van Wyck Brooks and Vernon Louis Parrington, Wharton and Wendell alike offer rich source material: a story of decline and extinction, a resistance to 'Puritanism', and a realist critique of idealism. Brooks and Parrington adapt these elements as they develop the narrative about the 'genteel'.

EarthLabs: A Model for Supporting Undergraduate Student Inquiry About Change over Time and Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 683-696
Author(s):  
Karen S. McNeal ◽  
Julie C. Libarkin ◽  
Tamara Shapiro Ledley ◽  
Katherine K. Ellins
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Student Inquiry ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals Literacy as Tardis: Stories in Time and Space

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Julia Davies
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Literacy Events ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The Many ◽  
Background Context ◽  
Do So

Background/Context This article draws on previous work about narrative, which regards the practice of storying our lives as a basic human impulse and one that draws on cultural resources to do so. Neophyte digital resources have fascinated and enticed us as devices to immerse ourselves ever deeply and widely to create shinier, polished narratives. Our new modes and media have impacted on the nature of our narratives, and we reflect on our lives as we read them back to ourselves. Yet the affordances of the devices have allowed us to play also with the modes of time and space. This article draws on theories suggested by Burnett et al.; Leander and Sheehy; Massey; and Lemke to unpack the slippery nature of these notions of space and time. Purpose/Objective/Research The article provides a series of examples from a range of scenarios and research projects to consolidate the proposal that the contexts of literacy events are difficult to delineate, that contexts slip and slide across space and time in ways that seem to defy absolute specificity—that they are “in motion,” mercurial, and subject to change. Nevertheless, within these uncertain spaces, individuals use the cultural resources at their disposal to make sense of who they are and what the world is, through the creation of stories. Research Design This is an analytical essay, which draws on the research of others to create a series of examples of “digital encounters.” Conclusions/Recommendations The article argues that despite the many changes that digital tools have brought to our lives, the narrative impulse and the desire to represent ourselves through images and other media have remained constant. The new tools seem to allow us, however, to play more explicitly with time and space and to incorporate these aspects into our meaning-making practices. We can use tools to explore new types of space and arenas for communication—not just because of our capacity to keep in touch across time and space (which is not new), but because we can disrupt how we perceive these concepts.

The other Who is Also the Same: The Relevance of Epidemics in Space and Time for Prevention of HIV Infection

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Frankenberg
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prevention Of Hiv ◽  
Over Time

The history of epidemics reveals the imposition of controls over time and space on the sick and powerless other in the interests of the well and powerful same. In contrast, effective prevention requires the sharing of values, space, and time: coevality in the broadest sense. Adolescents are seen as merely transitional: they were children in the recent past, they will be adults in the recent future. Thus as an other who must become the same, they are seen as out of time and threatening. Conventional adults fear uncontrolled sexuality, especially if it is perceived as taking place out of time and is therefore anachronistic or in the wrong places, out of bed and through the wrong orifices (anatopistic). These unshared cultural perceptions are a barrier against both education for life and effective prevention of HIV infection.

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