The main challenges in the health crisis, as experienced in a Portuguese public university observed during this period, are presented in this paper. The pandemic forced the suspension of university calendars and work routines in higher education institutions, requiring several changes, both in the ways of interacting with students and professors, and in the structure of interaction with the surrounding community. Institutions of higher education are microcosms that reflect well the great trends of social change. The text is supported by the analysis of documents, as well as the content analysis of meetings and interviews conducted with students from a Portuguese university. The results show that, at the same time as the pandemic changes introduced that will be momentary and that require successive adjustments, they also led to changes that will be more definitive and that could represent, in fact, the transformation of the patterns of organization of academic work.
The pandemic of covid-19 has created the backdrop for a significant change in academic time and, in particular, learning time. This short work in progress paper focuses on the results of a study involving a survey, open interviews with teachers and students and a meeting with students' representatives at one university addressing student's feelings concerning time management throughout Covid 19. The preliminary results suggest that students are more prone to accept the hybrid model, however pointing out some important questions, especially regarding gender issues. The paper concludes with some recommendations for the university to address students' time management in gender equality plans, at different levels.
The relations between the media, politics, the legal system and the phenomenon of corruption are complex and gives rise to various types of time and temporality. In empirical terms, this text addresses a study conducted with journalists who have followed cases of corruption involving politicians. The importance of time in the constitution of relations between media, politics and the legal system is discussed. The analysis highlights some of the main characteristics of the time in the media labour. Additionally, it debates the way in which time configures the relations of power that are established between the different systems and actors.
Using the data collected from research carried out at two Portuguese universities, this article highlights the way university lecturers currently deal with space and time. Their professional activity is not externally subjected to a specific time geometry that defines their working day. Teaching and researching time–spaces are basically task oriented. Furthermore, university lecturers are increasingly requested to perform tasks in very short time periods in order to secure financial support. To a certain extent, this pressure upon their work is facilitated by the use of technology. However, technology also causes a profound reconfiguration of working times and spaces, especially because it allows lecturers to work at any time from anywhere. This not only renders university physical spaces and times virtual, but it also leads to the colonization of several other time–spaces of their social lives. This article analyses the ambivalence and difficulty of managing time–spaces, as described by the lecturers themselves, with the objective of providing a more accurate awareness of the implications of technology on their lives, as well as the hazards of the progressive externalization of academic work, particularly for women.
This article draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken with the main aim of investigating the issue of the gender dimension of the academic mobility of Southeast Asian women. Our research describes Southeast Asian women’s experiences of mobility, narrating why they choose to be mobile, how the experience of going abroad was responded to and/or rejected by their family, how they experienced life in a different country, and what evaluations they make about these experiences in personal, familial, and professional terms. The article stresses the need to improve the understanding of the factors that are still determining the chances of women to be mobile and obtain fruitful gains from these experiences. For this to be attained, the article follows through an intersectional approach to mobility, considering it is of much use as it allows to comprehend that the disadvantages associated with gender are cumulative, multi-layered, resulting from effects of several variables, including of the emotional, social, economic, and political contexts.
En este capítulo hacemos una síntesis sobre lo que significa la relación entre el tiempo y la sociedad y el tiempo y la cultura, ilustrándolo con una revisión del pensamiento de los autores que se ocuparon del tiempo social y del tiempo cultural. Presentamos un análisis de sus principales características en las sociedades actuales, explorando algunas de las contradicciones que surgen fruto de los cambios en los usos, representaciones y percepciones del tiempo.
Resumo: Conhecer as novas modalidades de sentir o tempo em relacao as praticas alimentares, a partir das narrativas de vinte e nove grupos domesticos, e o objectivo principal desta comunicacao. Inspirando-nos na teoria do tempo de Norbert Elias, pretendemos compreender as ligacoes entre a alimentacao e os “tempos sociais”. Identificaremos a organizacao das ocupacoes alimentares no tempo atraves do sistema alimentar, desde a producao ate ao consumo das refeicoes. Pretendemos demonstrar as conexoes sociogeneticas entre a alimentacao quotidiana e a organizacao das mesmas na temporalidade. Os resultados deste estudo reforcam a pertinencia dos ritmos temporais especificos nas diferentes fases do sistema alimentar e na organizacao das tarefas alimentares domesticas numa sociedade em mudanca. Nos grupos domesticos estudados foi possivel verificar a presenca de multiplas configuracoes e a emergencia de novas temporalidades alimentares nas refeicoes domesticas.