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"Women in Asian Performance offers a vital re-examination of women's contributions to Asian performance traditions, focusing on their specific cultural, historical and performative contexts. Arya Madhavan brings together essays from leading scholars across the globe to make an exciting intervention into current aesthetic, political and cultural debates. Chapter-by-chapter, this volume looks afresh at the often centuries-old aesthetic theories and acting conventions which inform ideas of femininity and female representation onstage"--

AbstractObjectiveIn this article, I propose a new approach to study the opportunities and challenges for low‐income families through a focus on two key dimensions of family life: time and space. I show how the interaction of these two dimensions produces a range of scenarios for different types of social support to emerge.BackgroundThe space–time continuum (STC) is a theoretical framework in physics that removes the distinction between time and space and, instead, treats them as part of a seamless continuum. Similar to its adaptation in psychology, I use it to develop a model of family dynamics to better understand the correlates of kinship support.MethodDrawing on data drawn from a longitudinal project in Nairobi, Kenya, the spatial dimension is operationalized as the proportion of kin who live in close proximity and the temporal pertains to the duration of time in which family members maintain particular arrangements. Multinomial logit regression models are used to analyze the relationship between STC exposure and the odds of having each type of support composition.ResultsThe receipt of specific types of support from kin does vary across the STC quadrants though not entirely consistent with expectations. Moreover, the role of non‐kin was found to be surprisingly low across all waves of data collection, underscoring the continued importance of kin‐based relationships.ConclusionThe space–time continuum approach offers a way to connect macro level factors such as labor market constraints to micro level adaptation, agency, change and continuity in family structure and function. In doing so, I also make a case for the critical role that research in the African context can play in the development of theory and methodological innovation in family sociology.

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The author's purpose in this brief discussion piece is to suggest and describe a new ethos for engineering education and practice based on the themes of maintenance. Appreciating maintenance—the essential act and responsibility of repairing, restoring, renewing, refurbishing, and caring—can strengthen the link between engineering and civic goals in society, and could ultimately help boost the civic competencies of engineering.

Le 24 mars 2020, le Premier ministre de l'Inde Narendra Mordi ordonnait le confinement strict de tout le pays afin d'endiguer la transmission du SARS-Cov2. Annoncée du jour au lendemain, condamnant au chômage et à l'absence de revenu des centaines de millions de personnes et laissant les autorités locales se débrouiller pour nourrir les plus démunies, cette mesure a été fortement critiquée tant pour ses conséquences économiques et sociales que pour son faible impact sur la dynamique de la pandémie. Pourtant, parce qu'en Inde la santé est avant tout l'affaire des territoires, les situations y sont extrêmement contrastées et quelques États se sont montrés bien plus efficaces que le gouvernement central. C'est en particulier le cas du Kerala, au sud du pays, un État célébré pour son développement social « sans » croissance et ses politiques en matière d'éducation et de santé. Dans ce texte, Harilal Madhavan examine la gestion locale de la pandémie et ses relations au « modèle ». Il décrit un jeu complexe entre organisation du système de santé, initiatives gouvernementales et mobilisation des communautés à l'origine des succès initiaux comme de l'échec à contrôler la troisième vague de la pandémie, à partir de l'été.