In this article, we examine a distinctive multimodal phenomenon: a participant, gazing at a recipient, raising both eyebrows upon the completion of their own turn at talk – that is, in the transition space between turns at talk (Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson, 1974). We find that speakers deploy eyebrow raises in two related but distinct practices. In the first, the eyebrows are raised and held as the speaker presses the recipient to respond to a disaffiliative action (e.g. a challenge); in the second, the eyebrows are raised and quickly released in a so-called eyebrow flash as the speaker invites a response to an affiliative action (e.g. a joke). The former practice is essentially combative, the latter collusive. Although the two practices differ in their durational properties and in the kinds of actions that they serve, they also have something in common: they invoke a shared knowledge or understanding between speaker and recipient.
This paper makes a case for examining energy transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity. The paper draws on a seminar series on the 'Geographies of Energy Transition: security, climate, governance' hosted by the authors between 2009 and 2011, which initiated a dialogue between energy studies and the discipline of human geography. Focussing on the UK Government's policy for a low carbon transition, the paper provides a conceptual language with which to describe and assess the geographical implications of a transition towards low carbon energy. Six concepts are introduced and explained: location, landscape, territoriality, spatial differentiation, scaling, and spatial embeddedness. Examples illustrate how the geographies of a future low-carbon economy are not yet determined and that a range of divergent – and contending – potential geographical futures are in play. More attention to the spaces and places that transition to a low-carbon economy will produce can help better understand what living in a low-carbon economy will be like. It also provides a way to help evaluate the choices and pathways available.
Based in an analysis of a writing workshop which explored students' transition to higher education, this article puts to work theorizations of space by Massey, materiality by Barad, narrative by Cavarero, and ethics by Arendt to propose an innovative conceptualization of collaborative writing practices. The article proposes an understanding of the space of collaborative writing as a multiplicity of relations, negotiations, and practices; it considers what is to be gained from considering collaborative writing in relation to posthumanist concerns about the mattering of matter; and it illuminates how collaborative writing, when understood as the emergence of narratable selves, is a profoundly ethical practice.
In this work I analyze and interpret Polish political field as a field of memory. I make three claims. First, I claim that programmatic identities of Polish political parties are weak. Despite this weakness political competition remains fierce, because parties fashion enduring political identities. I identify three mainstream political identities of political actors in Poland, given by their temporal orientation and their judgment of communism. Second, I claim that the field of the political competition predicated on the turn to the past and on moral opprobrium is the particular achievement of the party that captured political power in Poland in 2015. Similarly to its 2005 electoral success, the party narrated the country's main problem as communist state-capture. It claimed that (former-) communists and their post-dissident allies captured political, material, and symbolic levers of power. This way of presenting the problem polarized the field, casting political opponents as essential enemies, and casting the narrators as country's saviors. Third, this achievement was possible because the party narrated communism as essentially and existentially anti-Polish: it presented it as equal to Nazism, it made it foreign, and it made it coincidental with Jewishness. It then launched such discursive "weapon" against its present-day opponents.
Between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, couples all around Europe began to deliberately limit their offspring, leading to an unparalleled decline in fertility levels. Even though these transformations affected all European societies, they did not happen for everyone in all places at the same time. Changes in family behaviour typically started in certain groups in specific places and later spread to the rest of the population. The underlying mechanisms of the spread of new fertility trends, however, are still a matter of debate. On the one hand, it could be argued that the determinants of fertility change – such as economic and cultural shifts – do not happen simultaneously everywhere. On the other hand, it has been suggested that there could be something more behind the patterns of change: diffusion processes, via the exchange of ideas and information between people, could affect the spread of new behaviours. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the underlying mechanisms of the spread of modern fertility behaviour in Belgium during the fertility transition. To this end, the research relies on a unique body of data gathered from different sources between 1886 and 1934. The datasets offer a high level of spatial and temporal precision and combine macro and micro perspectives. Different quantitative methods are employed in order to investigate the impact of diffusion on the timing, the pace and the geography of fertility decline. ; (POLS - Sciences politiques et sociales) -- UCL, 2015
Between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, couples all around Europe began to deliberately limit their offspring, leading to an unparalleled decline in fertility levels. Even though these transformations affected all European societies, they did not happen for everyone in all places at the same time. Changes in family behaviour typically started in certain groups in specific places and later spread to the rest of the population. The underlying mechanisms of the spread of new fertility trends, however, are still a matter of debate. On the one hand, it could be argued that the determinants of fertility change – such as economic and cultural shifts – do not happen simultaneously everywhere. On the other hand, it has been suggested that there could be something more behind the patterns of change: diffusion processes, via the exchange of ideas and information between people, could affect the spread of new behaviours. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the underlying mechanisms of the spread of modern fertility behaviour in Belgium during the fertility transition. To this end, the research relies on a unique body of data gathered from different sources between 1886 and 1934. The datasets offer a high level of spatial and temporal precision and combine macro and micro perspectives. Different quantitative methods are employed in order to investigate the impact of diffusion on the timing, the pace and the geography of fertility decline. ; (POLS - Sciences politiques et sociales) -- UCL, 2015
Teheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples for public spaces with a history of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic transitions. Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS). By analysing the planning instruments used for POPS in both cases, their uniqueness as well as strengths and weaknesses are revealed. Based on the results this study offers a number of policy recommendations for cities that encounter similar problems. License: CC-BY (applies to online archiving as well) Text to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839462324
Erasmus post-apprentices studyIn speeches and actions of the European and French authorities, mobility of apprentices is promoted as a major economic and political issue. It would promote (it would develop) the development of intercultural and professional skills with a view to longlife training and integration into the European labor market. It's strongly linked to the employment patterns of the next few years with "agility" and "plasticity" as key skills. If he is mobile and aware of the issues of his mobility, he would be able to develop a form of "self-entepreneurship" in a changing and uncertain world. Trained by mobility, he would fit to the expectations of a globalized economy. However, this equation is not evident. The experience of the apprentices' mobility and the apprenticeships they have learned remain poorly known. This thesis analyzes the mobility of apprentices as a space of biographical transition and identity reconfiguration. It considers that mobility is a double movement: in time and space. It fits into life stories in interactionist perspective. It is theoretically appealing to the notion of modernity, to socialization and experiences a frame of proof, to constructions of identity and to the concept of transition. In order to grasp this new experience from the point of view of those who live it, research mobilizes a qualitative survey (etude au lieu de dispositive) based on interviews and drawings. The sample survey is composed of "post apprentices" that have lived a six-months-mobility. The drawings represented the places they lived in during their mobility. Different profiles appear according to the continuity-rupture movements which are exploited with the trade, the mobility or the formation. For all, however, mobility is a training period. Mobility is a space for self-learning and reconfiguration. This highlighting of the world's report reconfiguration, and also of a new self-report, offers new perspectives for thinking about the accompaniment of mobility devices. ; Le cas des post ...
Erasmus post-apprentices studyIn speeches and actions of the European and French authorities, mobility of apprentices is promoted as a major economic and political issue. It would promote (it would develop) the development of intercultural and professional skills with a view to longlife training and integration into the European labor market. It's strongly linked to the employment patterns of the next few years with "agility" and "plasticity" as key skills. If he is mobile and aware of the issues of his mobility, he would be able to develop a form of "self-entepreneurship" in a changing and uncertain world. Trained by mobility, he would fit to the expectations of a globalized economy. However, this equation is not evident. The experience of the apprentices' mobility and the apprenticeships they have learned remain poorly known. This thesis analyzes the mobility of apprentices as a space of biographical transition and identity reconfiguration. It considers that mobility is a double movement: in time and space. It fits into life stories in interactionist perspective. It is theoretically appealing to the notion of modernity, to socialization and experiences a frame of proof, to constructions of identity and to the concept of transition. In order to grasp this new experience from the point of view of those who live it, research mobilizes a qualitative survey (etude au lieu de dispositive) based on interviews and drawings. The sample survey is composed of "post apprentices" that have lived a six-months-mobility. The drawings represented the places they lived in during their mobility. Different profiles appear according to the continuity-rupture movements which are exploited with the trade, the mobility or the formation. For all, however, mobility is a training period. Mobility is a space for self-learning and reconfiguration. This highlighting of the world's report reconfiguration, and also of a new self-report, offers new perspectives for thinking about the accompaniment of mobility devices. ; Le cas des post apprentis inscrits dans un dispositif de mobilité Erasmus +.Dans les discours et les actions des instances européenne et nationale, la mobilité des apprentis est promue comme un enjeu économique et politique majeur. Elle favoriserait le développement de compétences interculturelles et professionnelles dans une perspective de formation tout au long de la vie et d'insertion sur le marché du travail européen. Elle est aussi très fortement reliée aux configurations d'emploi des toutes prochaines années, avec l'agilité et la plasticité comme compétences clés. Celui qui est mobile et conscient des enjeux de sa mobilité serait capable, plus qu'un autre, de développer une forme d'entrepreneuriat de soi dans un contexte mouvant et incertain et former par la mobilité correspondrait aux attentes d'une économie mondialisée. Pour autant, cette équation ne va pas de soi. Le vécu de la mobilité des apprentis et les apprentissages qu'ils en ont retirés demeurent mal connus. Cette thèse analyse la mobilité comme un espace de transition biographique et de reconfiguration identitaire. Elle considère que la mobilité est un double mouvement, dans le temps et l'espace. Elle s'inscrit dans le courant des histoires de vie dans une perspective interactionniste. Elle fait appel, sur le plan théorique, à la notion de modernité, à la socialisation et à l'expérience comme cadres de mise à l'épreuve, aux constructions identitaires et au concept de transition. Pour saisir cette expérience inédite du point de vue de ceux qui la vivent, la recherche mobilise un dispositif qualitatif, constitué d'entretiens auprès de post–apprentis ayant effectué une mobilité de six mois et de dessins des lieux investis durant le stage en mobilité. Différents profils apparaissent en fonction des mouvements de continuités-ruptures qui s'opèrent, avec le métier, la mobilité ou la formation. Pour tous cependant, la mobilité est une période de formation à part entière. Des apprentissages professionnels ont été certes réalisés, mais les sujets mobiles ont surtout revisité leur projet existentiel. Avant d'être un espace de formation professionnelle, la mobilité est un espace d'apprentissage de soi et de reconfiguration. Les lieux choisis ont participé à cette prise de conscience, ils correspondent au projet de soi construit durant l'expérience. Cette mise en évidence de la reconfiguration d'un nouveau rapport au monde et au-delà, d'un nouveau rapport à soi, au travers du retravail et de la représentation du lieu, offre également de nouvelles perspectives pour penser l'accompagnement des dispositifs de mobilité.
This article focuses on the space of the nation as presented in the films produced in Romania during the communist, transition to democracy, and democratic eras. The author's analysis addresses cinematic space, the rules that exist within it, the authority of the space, as well as the specific ways in which certain identities are created and integrated in such cinematic spaces. The author traces the persistence of a number of spaces in films produced under different political regimes, transformations or substitutions of spaces, as well as the changes of rules and authorities. The article illustrates the way political, economic, and social changes are represented or imagined in the cinematic space. Special attention is directed to the relationship between the city and the countryside and to how this relationship has changed over time.
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