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Pathways to energy democracy in Canada
No full textSSHRC IG awarded 2023: Canada is experiencing rapid energy transition, with profound implications for how we live, move and work. Our country is poised to expand renewable energy capacity from 19 gigawatts in 2021 to almost 45 GW in 2025, driven mainly from wind and solar energy projects in western Canada. This transition includes the decarbonization of electricity, electrification of transportation, energy efficient housing and urban design as well as changes in consumer behaviour. Although these sweeping changes in the energy system hold tremendous potential for societal transformation, they also risk underpinning the status quo, retrenching systems of inequality, and exacerbating issues of access and affordability across many parts of the country. there is very limited research in Canada on the possibilities and limits of expanding community-based renewable energy (CRE) projects, and we know even less about how well existing projects are meeting their economic, social and environmental objectives. With these concerns in mind, the proliferation of CRE projects in Canada are at the heart of this proposal. In particular, we explore the possibilities for advancing these types of projects as manifestations of energy democracy and energy justice to meeting the needs of diverse and evolving rural, urban and Indigenous communities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Charles Taylor, recognition and agrarian identity in Western Canada
No full textThe purpose of this study is to highlight the manner by which current financial
challenges facing small-scale fanning operations throughout rural Western Canada
represent a significant threat to a distinct cultural community and thus requires an
immediate response from both levels of government designed to stem this threat and
preserve this community. The theoretical framework of this study is provided by the
philosophy of Charles Taylor. Specifically, I focus on his work regarding the intrinsic
nature of the community in relation to the individual and the subsequent commitment to
preserve local or cultural communities in the face of market driven policies within the
public sphere. This commitment is founded upon Taylor's specific argument regarding
the ontology of the human subject, an argument which makes clear the foundational role
the cultural community plays with regard to the identity formation of the individual.
Furthermore, it is this foundational role played by the cultural community which often
requires recognition from the larger, national community in order to maintain the
allegiance of the individual. This is an assertion that clearly has implications for a
pluralistic society such as Canada and is often referred to by those, like Taylor, who
argue for the need to recognize the distinct cultural communities which make-up Canada,
such as the Quebecois, the First Nations and more recently, the various immigrant groups
which are dispersed throughout this country. It is through this angle, this commitment to
recognize local cultural communities, that I engage Taylor's work and introduce a
collective identity not often mentioned within Canadian "recognition" discourse, that of
the rural agricultural West. It is my contention that there does exist a distinct agrarian
collective identity in Western Canada, and further, such a community is facing economic
challenges which are threatening its persistence, perhaps even existence. Not only does
the contemporary decline of small-scale rural agriculture represent a significant threat to
the foundational community of agrarian individuals, it also highlights the need for this
group to be "recognized" in a way that promotes a strengthened attachment to Canada as
a whole.Arts, Faculty ofPolitical Science, Department ofGraduat
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Cohesion in Rural Canadian Communities: Letter-to-the-editor Forums as a Window into Community Discord
Full text linkThis paper considers the potential harm inflicted by the COVID-19 Pandemic on levels of social cohesion in rural communities by analyzing “Letters to the Editors” published in five rural community newspapers over a 13-month period across Western Canada. Utilizing a quantitative “Content Analysis,” combined with a qualitative “Critical Discourse Analysis,” this study provides evidence that citizens in these communities were divided, almost equally, on the necessity of public health measures designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 in their communities; that misinformation and conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 were present in these communities, although at relatively low levels; and most importantly, the nature and form of some of the arguments expressed in Letters to the Editor across these communities over the necessity of public health measures do speak to some potentially explosive areas of disagreement that may lead to increasing levels of social discord going forward. Overall, there is reason to fear that, aside from the more obvious implications of the Pandemic related to the physical, fiscal, and emotional health of rural citizens, the Pandemic may have increased levels of polarization and thus contributed to a further eroding of fragile levels of social capital in these communities.
Keywords: letters-to-the-editor, rural newspapers, polarization, social cohesion, pandemic
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La pandémie de Covid-19 et les niveaux de cohésion sociale dans les communautés rurales:Les forums de la lettre à l'éditeur comme fenêtre sur la discorde communautaire
Cet article examine les dommages potentiels infligés par la pandémie de Covid-19 sur les niveaux de cohésion sociale dans les communautés rurales en analysant les « Lettres aux éditeurs » publiées dans cinq journaux communautaires ruraux sur une période de 13 mois dans l'Ouest canadien. Utilisant une « analyse de contenu » quantitative combinée à une « analyse de discours critique » qualitative, cette étude fournit des preuves que les citoyens de ces communautés étaient divisés, presque également, sur la nécessité de mesures de santé publique conçues pour ralentir la propagation de Covid-19 dans leurs communautés ; que la mésinformation et les théories du complot liées à la Covid-19 étaient présentes dans ces communautés, bien qu'à des niveaux relativement faibles ; et plus important encore, la nature et la forme de certains des arguments exprimés dans les lettres à l'éditeur à travers ces communautés sur la nécessité de mesures de santé publique parlent de certains domaines de désaccord potentiellement explosifs qui peuvent conduire à des niveaux croissants de discorde sociale à l'avenir. Dans l'ensemble, il y a lieu de craindre que, outre les implications plus évidentes de la pandémie liées à la santé physique, fiscale et émotionnelle des citoyens ruraux, la pandémie puisse avoir accru les niveaux de polarisation et ainsi contribué à une nouvelle érosion des niveaux fragiles de capital social dans ces communautés.
Mots clés: lettres aux éditeurs, journaux ruraux, polarisation, cohésion sociale, pandémi
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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