Temporality, self-development and welfare among foreign domestic workers in Singapore

Ma, Alex

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“…On the one hand, the spatial and temporal expressions in discourse directly delineate the discourse producer’s “scope of attention” (Kaal, 2017: 29) that describes worldviews, such as the all-inclusive spatial expressions “global” and “all countries” and the temporal extension into the past and the future in Case 1 projecting a wide attention frame on the coordinate, and the deictic reference “our allies and partners” and temporal proximization from both the past and the future in Case 2 delimiting the boundary of the attention frame around “here and now” to legitimize immediate actions against Russia. On the other hand, time and space in political discourse are in such intricate dynamics that sometimes they metaphorically converge with each other to form “conflated timespace” (Kaal, 2017; May and Thrift, 2001), when an event is perceived as social reality in a space and time frame which features evolution in a continuum of social change both spatially and temporally. As an important element to construct discourse space, timespace has a strong rhetorical affordance in setting the scene either as conflictual or cooperative in an instant, as is suggested by Kaal (2017).…”

Section: Dynamics Of the Three Dimensions Of Dstmentioning

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Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory

2023

Discourse & Society

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Political discourse can be considered as consisting of conflictual discourse and cooperative discourse in view of the relationship between power entities. From the perspective of spatial conceptualization in cognitive discourse analysis, cooperative discourse is supposed to be different from conflictual one in terms of the spatial representation, with Chilton’s Discourse Space Theory, which mainly conceptualizes space as an inside/outside dichotomy, only accounting for the latter instead of the former. This paper attempts to further apply Chilton’s three-dimensional model to involve the alternative way of spatial conceptualization with different kind of construals and to compare the differences of the two types of political discourse in the construction of discourse space. Taking the speeches by two state leaders for the purposes of cooperation and accusation respectively as the cases in point, this paper concludes that cooperative discourse displays an outward-extensive discourse space representation as opposed to the inward-contractive discourse space representation of conflictual discourse. This study contributes to expand the scope of discourse space analysis, which is primarily for antagonistic relations only, to incorporate cooperative relations with an extended application of DST based on alternative ways of spatial conceptualization and an elaboration on the dynamics of its three dimensions, and hence to shed some lights on political discourse studies.

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Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory

2023

Discourse & Society

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“…In Moldovan society, strong normative expectations were for women to raise children, provide care and manage household duties. Female domestic workers' transnational motherhood and how motherhood is redefined to accommodate spatial separation have been dealt with (e.g., Carling, Menjívar, & Schmalzbauer, 2012;Feduyk, 2011;Hondagneu-Sotelo & Avila, 1997;Kindler, 2011;Kordasiewicz, 2016;Parreñas, 2001Parreñas, , 2005Urba nska, 2016;Zentgraf & Stoltz Chinchilla, 2012), although time has been treated only tangentially, mostly with reference to self-development and well-being (Ma, 2017).…”

Section: Migrant Temporalities and Transnational Livingmentioning

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“In the back of my mind, time always ticks one hour forward”: The transnational temporalities of Moldovan domestic workers in Italy

Cojocaru

2020

Population Space and Place

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This article analyses the temporalities of transnational living through a threefold frame: as an outlook, as a resource and as a qualitative experience. Drawing on data from interviews with Moldovan women who are domestic workers in Italy, I point to the time work employed by these labour migrants to navigate a multitude of timescapes derived from a (permanently) temporary status, precarious resources and the emotional ambivalence that arises from being away from their families. I show how migrants' envisioned temporariness of transnational living materialises into a time‐bound outlook, which, in turn, compels them to manage time as a scarce resource, that has to be managed, planned and worked with. Lastly, I indicate that maintaining a temporary outlook correlates with a halting strategy and may have significant effects on personal and family well‐being.

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“…Our research here aims to discuss the concept of ‘time–space planning’ as an alternative approach. It facilitates the making of ‘durable’, ‘temporary’ and ‘local’ urban futures by re-conceptualising urban time–spaces as ‘multiple, relational and co-produced’ (Ferreri, 2015; May et al, 2001).…”

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Planning Temporariness: Unpacking Time–Space Planning and Its Socially Just Applications in and Around Kolkata

Chatterjee,

Khanna

2023

Urbanisation

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The growing uncertainties affecting Indian cities, both prior to COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic context, are not only changing the everyday needs of its citizens but also challenging mainstream planning, in envisioning urban futures and demanding new planning interventions and processes that are affordable and flexible, and yield equitable, long-lasting outcomes. This demands adoption of an alternative time–space approach in planning that aligns with Henri Lefebvre’s idea of time being interconnected with space. Consequently, it prompts both formal and informal actors to perceive the city through the ‘prism of the temporary’, a fundamental concept employed by Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams in their analysis of cities in the global South. Here, planning does not discriminate between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ interventions. Rather, the ‘hybrid’ initiatives are threaded deliberately into the temporal layers of the city and, therefore, allow both formal and informal actors to collaborate in ‘strange’ ways and curate socially just time-bound responses that cope with a range of socio-economical challenges. To elaborate this further, the article adopts a case-study approach and critically examines a few temporary-use practices through various actors and their roles, types of spatial and institutional experiments and their contributions towards just developments in and around Kolkata. The study does not intend to replace long-term macro-spatial interventions with short-term micro-spatial practices. Rather it highlights those situations where formal urban planning fails to address the urban quandaries, and, therefore, planning ‘temporariness’ allows people and planners to explore appropriate possibilities to ‘improvise’ urban lives in India.

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Temporality, self-development and welfare among foreign domestic workers in Singapore

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Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory

Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory

“In the back of my mind, time always ticks one hour forward”: The transnational temporalities of Moldovan domestic workers in Italy

Planning Temporariness: Unpacking Time–Space Planning and Its Socially Just Applications in and Around Kolkata

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