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Abstract: Attacks on higher education communities are occurring at an alarming rate worldwide, threatening the safety and well-being of scholars, students, and academic staff, as well as the autonomy of higher education institutions. While we continue to publish regular updates in Social Research: An International Quarterly, in response to a global increase in threats to academic freedom, Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) has expanded its presence as an online publication under the auspices of the New University in Exile Consortium (www.newuniversityinexileconsortium.org), sharing frequent updates on news and developing cases in contribution to the Consortium's efforts to create a supportive intellectual community for ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: we are privileged to be publishing this issue, guest edited by one of our longtime editorial board members. It is an oddly important subject, because patience seems like a very old-fashioned value and one not much esteemed in our contemporary world where speed is king. In the US we have Instacart and Amazon Prime that promise instant gratification by delivering goods almost as soon as we have ordered them, and each new version of our computers offers faster and faster processing so that we seem to be able to know more and more in less and less time—but at what cost' What have we lost in canonizing speed, the bosom companion of impatience'As you will read in these pages, patience, as our guest editor suggests, may ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: the authors in this issue of social research step back and take stock of what patience means to them, and in the process they come up with new insights into suffering, forbearance, divine authority, human queueing behavior, delayed gratification, savings behavior, and more. Patience evidently repays attention as a topic, but also as a lens into other topics. Sometimes, it tends to escape inspection because it has the transparency of a window. Luckily for us, this transparency is shot through with smudges and fingerprints, issuing from history, cultural variation, poetic and policy conventions, all marks of human efforts to define, capture, and harness patience. Still, patience resists being etherized upon the table ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: in a small village in southern rajasthan there was a farmer—in fact, there were many just like him. He was a member of a tribal caste. He owned a plot of land, roughly 14 acres, half of which was arable, part of it pasture, and the remainder rocky outgrowth. He cultivated this farm with his family, the occasional assistance of other members of his village and caste, and a few cows and bulls. He grew vegetables, grain, and fruit, and left a significant part fallow. He lived in a stone and thatched hut with no attached bathroom, no running water, and no windows. He had a cell phone, which allowed him to stay connected with members of his community but was used for little else. The farm met most of his and his ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: in a 2013 comic monologue, louis c. k. explained why he would not buy mobile phones for his children:You need to build an ability to just be yourself and not be doing something. That's what the phones have taken away. It's the ability to just sit there, like this [demonstrates motionlessness]. That's being a person, right' … Pretty much hundred percent of people are driving and texting, and they're killing everybody and murdering each other with their cars. But people are willing to risk taking a life and ruining their own, 'cause they don't want to be alone for a second.(C. K. 2013)Further on, the comedian describes a wave of sadness that once flooded him while driving his car, his immediate urge to text ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Would you buy a fuel-efficient car that costs $800 more than a less fuel-efficient car, if that fuel-efficient car would save you $8,000 over the next 10 years' A great deal of research finds that many consumers suffer from "present bias" and might not do so (Benhabib, Bisin, and Schotter 2010; Kuchler and Pagel 2018; O'Donoghue and Rabin 2015; Schleich et al. 2019; Wang and Sloan 2018; Werthschulte and Loschel 2021).1 Current costs and benefits loom large; future costs and benefits do not. For many of us, the short term is what matters most, and the long term is a foreign country. The future is Laterland, a country we are not sure we will ever visit. This is so with respect to choices that involve money, health ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: what kind of thing is patience' is it an ethical value' is it a personal virtue' Is it an attitude of mind' Is it a condition of society' Is it a modality of power and social control' Or does it operate inconstantly, at multiple levels in different ways, depending on the usage and context'In the ethics literature, patience has conventionally been treated as a minor value, although it is true that there is uncertainty about whether it is really a value at all. The problem is obvious: sometimes it is good to be patient, while at other times it is better to be impatient and to strive urgently for things we believe are important. Sometimes a call to be patient is seen as condescending or merely as a device to enforce a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: the exhortation to patience (ṣabr) occurs 103 times in the qur'an, in varied settings ranging from praise for "patient endurance" to marking "trust in the munificence of God" as a telltale sign of true piety (Alexander 2002, 378). Correspondingly outsized is the reward for patience. As a cipher for conviction, patience not only denotes abiding what God wills, but also encourages at the same time a bird's eye view on the lifeworld.But surely patience is a universal virtue—it is praised as highly in the Bible as it is in the Qur'an and occupies a prominent place in almost all premodern moral ecosystems. So, what makes Islamic patience different'In an article published in Time magazine in 1966, an unnamed essayist ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: when he invited me to contribute to this special issue, arjun Appadurai provided both an account of its overall rationale and a comment about what he hoped I might produce: "an essay … reflecting on whether both literature and literary criticism have been damaged by the commodification of time, and how impaired the work of criticism has been made by a world of speed, scale and immediacy." I was still pondering this invitation when he followed up with what he described as a further temptation, some lines from the English poet William Wordsworth describing an aged man on a dusty road:A man who does not move with pain, but movesWith thought.—He is insensibly subduedTo settled quiet: he is one by whomAll effort ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: when a ship is invented, so is the idea of a shipwreck. this catchy thought, attributed to French philosopher Paul Virilio,1 forms a fine dry dock from which to inspect the possible damage done to the metaphoric ship of patience in its passage through rough twenty-firstcentury waters. We begin, though, with the story of a real ship called Patience and its companion ship, Deliverance.If "past is prologue," as William Shakespeare asserted in The Tempest, then the narrative of the seventeenth-century pinnace Patience may in fact be oddly relevant to the predicaments of our own times. But how might trawling through the backstory of a ship that just happened to be called Patience at all help counter the urgent ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: arjun appadurai is a professor emeritus of media, culture, and communication at New York University and a member of the editorial board of Social Research. He lives in Berlin.james chandler is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and interim chair of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies for 2023/24. His most recent book is Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts (2022). He is currently at work on a book about canonicity and criticism, Figures in a Field: Wordsworth and Edgeworth.paul a. komesaroff is a physician and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne and executive director of the international NGO Global Reconciliation. ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-28T00:00:00-05:00
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