Timescapes of Modernity

Adam, Bárbara

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“…A focus on time in geography and social theory emerged in response to concerns about the separation of time and space and the relative neglect of time (Parkes and Thrift 1980;Gell 1992;Adam 1994Adam , 1998Latour 1997;May and Thrift 2001).…”

Section: Time Ecological Time and Rhythmpatternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Modern engineering of time is seen to mark the ‗triumph' of culture over nature (as in the manipulation of plant and animal life to fit industrial capitalist time frames (Adam 1998). Macnaghten and Urry (1998:137) However, many ‗other' non-human temporalities still trace through everyday life (Foster and Kreitzman 2004) and the ‗timescapes of modernity' (Adam 1998). Harvey (1996: 210) But tides themselves cannot be stopped any more than we can stop the moon revolving round the earth or drain the oceans dry.…”

Section: The Smoothing Out Of Tidal Rhythmpatternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example May and Thrift's (2001) collection is overwhelmingly focused on aspects of social time. Elsewhere the temporalities of nature have come into focus (Macnaghten and Urry 1998); for understanding environmental change (Driver and Chapman 1996); environmental hazards (Adam 1998); and nature conservation (Adams 1996). Adam (1998) Here I look beyond hazard and risk to consider other naturally derived temporal ecologies.…”

Section: Time Ecological Time and Rhythmpatternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Elsewhere the temporalities of nature have come into focus (Macnaghten and Urry 1998); for understanding environmental change (Driver and Chapman 1996); environmental hazards (Adam 1998); and nature conservation (Adams 1996). Adam (1998) Here I look beyond hazard and risk to consider other naturally derived temporal ecologies. To talk of natural rhythms is not to separate out nature-culture into discrete sets, it is to point to the sources of pulses that enter any system of temporal ecology.…”

Section: Time Ecological Time and Rhythmpatternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lunar–Solar Rhythmpatterns: Towards the Material Cultures of Tides

Jones

2011

Environ Plan A

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The movements of the oceans, and the liminal margins of sea, land, and fresh water have profound implications for human/nonhuman life. Those movements and margins are rhythmically affected by tides which are thus a key means by which the forceful materiality of water is animated. Where salt water meets land and river mouths, ceaseless, varying, daily, monthly, and seasonal rhythms of sea level rise and fall occur. Complex patterns and rhythms of intertidal areas, currents, mixing of salt and fresh water, erosion, transportation, and deposition, and many impacts on human systems are created. Due to location, orientation, and sea/land topography, coastal areas around the world are subject to microtides, mesotides, or macrotides (4 m and higher). Particularly in the case of the last, the rhythms of the tides extend out into a range of intersecting ecosocial assemblages. This paper discusses tides and their rhythms, sets them in debates about temporality/nature, and introduces the idea of rhythmpattern which is timespace animated. It also considers dissonance and consonance within and between tidal rhythmpatterns and their overwriting by development.

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Section: Time Ecological Time and Rhythmpatternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Smoothing Out Of Tidal Rhythmpatternsmentioning

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Section: Time Ecological Time and Rhythmpatternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Time Ecological Time and Rhythmpatternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lunar–Solar Rhythmpatterns: Towards the Material Cultures of Tides

Jones

2011

Environ Plan A

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“…How to 'represent' that? How to think of time and space together rather than in separation (Adam, 1998;May and Thrift, 2001)?…”

Section: Conclusion-breathing and Geographymentioning

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On Breathing and Geography: Explorations of Data Sonifications of Timespace Processes with Illustrating Examples from a Tidally Dynamic Landscape (Severn Estuary, UK)

Palmer

Jones

2014

Environ Plan A

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This paper consists of a discussion of data sonification-a procedure in which information gathered from systems such as bodies or environmental processes is analyzed and reprocessed into audio models, so aspects of the process generating the data (for example, emotional or tidal ebb and flow) can be apprehended by human senses. This serves various purposes relevant to geography. Firstly, it sets out the principles of sonification as a method, defining its basic principles and relating it to both qualitative and quantitative data. Secondly, it offers potential to geographic interests in process, times, rhythm, landscape, place, and more besides-'representing' various aspects of processes that are beyond normal human apprehension, perhaps through register, duration, pitch, and so on. Thirdly, in the illustrating examples, which comprise sonifications of tides and other processes in the Severn Estuary, UK, it highlights possibilities of engaging local communities and stakeholders with the dynamics of landscapes such as tidal processes, which have significant implications for culture, economy, and ecology, as do other tidal and other process geographies elsewhere.

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Scenario planning in science‐centric organizations

Ramírez

McGinley²,

Rissanen

2020

Futures & Foresight Science

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This paper surveys how, why, and with what effects organizations whose activity is centered on the work of the natural sciences and their application to societal issues, and whose core staff are natural scientists—often working with a positivist epistemology—use scenario planning. Based on three cases, we research how the scenario planning methodology was utilized, why it was selected, and with what effects. Our research suggests that scenario planning can be deployed to enhance the social engagement which science requires to operate; and which enables science and the organizations which support it to justify the value which science creates and thus to help secure its funding and restate and render explicit what the purpose of such organizations is. This paper contributes to scenario planning scholarship by extending the type of organizations which can benefit from deploying the methodology (we believe it is the first paper to explore how scenario planning is used by scientific organizations); and it also contributes to understanding how the construct of post‐normal science is enacted in practice. It does so by including in this practice a longer time horizon with which an extended peer community can assess scientific values.

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Timescapes of Modernity

Cited by 146 publications

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Lunar–Solar Rhythmpatterns: Towards the Material Cultures of Tides

Lunar–Solar Rhythmpatterns: Towards the Material Cultures of Tides

On Breathing and Geography: Explorations of Data Sonifications of Timespace Processes with Illustrating Examples from a Tidally Dynamic Landscape (Severn Estuary, UK)

Scenario planning in science‐centric organizations

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