The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic strains conventional temporal imaginaries through which emergencies are typically understood and governed. Rather than a transparent linear temporality, smooth transition across the series event/disruption–response–post-event recovery, moves in fits starts, blurring boundary between normalcy emergency. This distended temporality brings into sharp relief other slow ...

Regional development is ‘man-shaped’. This article calls for more engagement with the feminist concept of futurity by bringing together and troubling masculine-coded understandings regional development, leadership power over time space. It argues that continuing to neglect politics practices in studies stifles conceptual practical advances subnational development. Drawing on example UK at a gov...

After the evacuation of Gush Katif settlement and intensifying with 2008–2009 Israeli War on Gaza, border town Sderot its surrounding landscape became, for American Christian Zionists, a pilgrimage therefore sacred space as it was performed an event site portending apocalypse. Zionists interpreted war took place mise-en-scène hope: hollowing out Gaza in anticipation Christ’s return. read future...

Abstract The discourse on children’s rights has reconceptualised children and childhood in terms of human integrity ontology. However, there are ongoing questions over its universal applicability. In this paper I offer a critical examination rights, focusing the uneven distribution rather than spread which dominates discourse. focuses educational frames reference that limit access to including ...

Researchers interested in anticipatory discourse are, generally speaking, concerned with discourses in or about the future. They investigate how individuals, texts, or utterances project representations of future events, states, or relations. Unlike other areas of applied linguistics, the study of anticipatory discourse is still very much in its infancy. As yet, there is no set tradition or sch...

Innovation strategy is the basis of success in innovation and performance improvement. This paper represents a model related to the most important innovation strategies which have a significant impact on performance of industries. Then, it examines the relationships between innovation strategies and diversity and development of the performance. So, the empirical research was carried out in Iran...

the existing literature on bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in bantu languages like chasu, lucazi, lusamia, and shiyeyi. thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in kiswahili based on the selection of tam types. this is because the sem...