Linguists on the move in the global Landscape?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Unknown / not yet matched
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Job Market ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Space Compression

Abstract This paper focuses on the sociolinguistic effects of tightening job markets in applied linguistics, and situates the discussion within the time-space compression of late modernist capitalist enterprises using frameworks in the sociolinguistics of mobility, political economy and raciolinguistics. The paper focuses on single-utterance speech acts of reservation conspicuously invoked to frame the discourse of dissent on the part of committee members in high-stakes interview encounters. Focusing on locally-sourced data collected in a publicly-funded, U.S. university, the paper examines how macro-contexts of skill oversaturation in the job market serve to frame enactments of stance in these high-stakes interactional microcosms while pointing to novel epistemological trending in complexity, conviviality and cosmopolitan encounter.

Between the commodity and the gift: the Coastal GasLink pipeline and the contested temporalities of Canadian and Witsuwit'en law

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-145
Author(s):  
Tyler McCreary ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
Time Extension ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Infrastructure

This article examines the conflicting subjectivities and space-times of Indigenous and colonial law that underpin the recent shutdown of the Canadian economy as people barricaded railways and ports in solidarity with the Witsuwit'en hereditary chiefs’ blockade against the Coastal GasLink pipeline across their territory. The article argues that this conflict between Canadian and Witsuwit'en law reflects fundamental tensions between their respective foundations in relations of the commodity and the gift. Within settler capitalist society, the value of a commodity is constructed relationally through a political economy of exchange that aims to speed transactions to maximize profits. With an ongoing drive for time-space compression, there is continual pressure in settler capitalism to develop new infrastructure that can speed the circulation of commodities. In Witsuwit'en society, the gift presents a contrasting logic of place-time extension. Rather than focusing on closing transactions to increase profits, gift giving stretches reciprocal obligations into the past and future. Contrasting these distinct conceptions of the relationship between value and time, the article argues that the Witsuwit'en struggle with Coastal GasLink should be understood as conflict between colonial temporal enclosures and a radical promise to open futures different to those engendered by the colonial present.

Mapping the Terrain of Time—Space Compression: Power Networks in Everyday Life

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 611-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Power Networks ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Power Geometry ◽  
Comprehensive Mapping

In this paper I seek a more comprehensive mapping of the experience of time—space in late modernity. I develop Massey's critique of the work of Harvey and Jameson in their reading of time space compression as a socially uniform experience of disorientation. Building on Massey's notion of ‘power geometry’ I integrate discussions of time—space with an application of different understandings of power (from traditional political philosophy, Marxism, and poststructuralism) and their manifestations—in latent-power conditions, socioeconomic networks, actor networks, ‘local’ interpersonal relations, and the network spaces of subjectivity. Rather than being posited as irreconcilable conceptions, these versions of power and their articulations can be seen as initial coordinates in the mapping of the complexities of the experiences of time and space in late modernity.

One World? The Poetics of Passenger Flight and the Perception of the Global

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marit J. MacArthur
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Flight Speed ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Space Compression

The poetry of passenger flight, especially in the early years of the jet age, is exceptional in illuminating the perceptual, affective, and ethical confusions of the global perspective. Offering readings of James Merrill's “Flying from Byzantium,” Elizabeth Bishop's “Night City,” Amiri Baraka's “The Nation Is like Ourselves,” and Derek Walcott's “The Fortunate Traveller,” this essay integrates theoretical grounding in the phenomenology of flight (speed, distance, time, and perspective), the legacy of Romantic landscape meditation in contemporary poetry and the evolution of the literature of flight, and relevant historical background about the development of commercial air travel. The passenger's view in the period when flight was no longer thrilling and not yet tedious is a peculiarly apt trope for the difficulties of imagining the global and of registering the conundrum of globalization—in its most basic sense, time-space compression—from its repercussions in our private lives to the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time.

Understanding Late-Twentieth-Century Capitalism: Reassessing the Globalization Theme

1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don D. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Order ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Similar Vein ◽  
International Socialization ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

There are Many Ambiguities Within The Literature on globalization. Some scholars speak of a world that is chunging others use the framework as part of a new univocal discourse to describe late twentieth-century capitalism. Apart from ‘globalization’, many other cartographic and navigational metaphors have been employed to describe the present world order. There is the loss of the ‘magnetic North’; an ‘emerging global civilization’; and a curious notion of an evolving ‘global civil society’. Master concepts like ‘sustainable development’ and ‘world politics’ have consequently become popular and are creeping into international relations discourse. In extreme cases the literature seems to suggest or imply that history is coming to an end on convenient Western socio-cultural terms only. Indeed it seems that proponents of globalization have come to proclaim universality afresh in similar vein to that of those who indulge in and perpetuate the notion of a post-Columbus 500-year capitalist historicism. I do not share the triumphalism of the liberal globalization discourse. It is certainly important to ask whether the wave of technological change, interdependent policy-making, international socialization of production, and time-space compression have or have not come to transcend or replace the complex web of centre-periphery relations. There remains generally a familiar interstate world system, albeit with the spatial and temporal limits to state, market and human interactions experientially compressed. Questions about who rules, who benefits or suffers, and whether prospects for social survival are better or worse remain as important as ever.

From Time-Space Compression to Spatial Spreads

2017 ◽  
pp. 41-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Bryan ◽  
Michael Rafferty ◽  
Duncan Wigan
Keyword(s):  
Time Space ◽  
Space Compression
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