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Mellan medborgerligt och etniskt : Partiet för demokratisk aktion och den symboliska kampen för en bosnisk-hercegovinsk stat
No full textThis thesis examines the persistent political fragmentation of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the role of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and the strategies of Bosniac political actors from the 1995 Dayton Agreement to the 2022 elections. Situated within the complex legacy of the Ottoman millet system and post-communist state-building, the study investigates how SDA activists conceptualise the relationship between Bosniac national identity and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian state amidst ethnic rivalries and external influences. Employing Pierre Bourdieu’s political field theory, adapted to account for the political idiosyncrasies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the research addresses the central question: How have the political strategies and interactions of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), as a key Bosniac political actor, with other influential political actors, shaped Bosnia and Herzegovina’s persistent status as a disintegrated post-war nation-state from 1995 to 2022? Through qualitative fieldwork, including interviews and participant observation with current and former SDA activists, the study reveals how Bosniacs navigate a contested political landscape marked by alliances with Western powers (as the meta-power) and tensions with Serb and Croat counterparts (as the meta-analysts). The findings highlight a patron–client dynamic with external actors, internal debates over civic versus ethnic nationalism and the enduring impact of historical communal structures on modern statehood. By offering new empirical insights into the SDA’s activist perspectives and a sociological framework for understanding fragmented states, this thesis contributes to the scholarship on post-Ottoman nation-building and political field theory, illuminating broader patterns of political disintegration in diverse societies. I den här avhandlingen undersöks den politiska splittringen i efterkrigstidens Bosnien-Hercegovina. Detta görs genom en närmare granskning av bosniakiska politiska aktörers strategier, från Daytonavtalet 1995 till valet 2022, med fokus på den bosniakiska nyckelaktören Partiet för demokratisk aktion (SDA). Studien, som tar avstamp i det komplexa arvet från det osmanska millet-systemet och det postkommunistiska statsbygget, analyserar hur SDA-aktivister begripliggör förhållandet mellan bosniakisk nationell identitet och den bosnisk-hercegovinska staten i en kontext av etnisk rivalitet och externa politiska aktörers inflytande. Utifrån Pierre Bourdieus teori om det politiska fältet, anpassad för att ta hänsyn till Bosnien-Hercegovinas politiska särdrag, behandlas den centrala frågan: Hur har SDA:s politiska strategier och interaktioner med andra inflytelserika politiska aktörer format Bosnien-Hercegovinas status som en splittrad efterkrigsnation från 1995 till 2022? Genom kvalitativt fältarbete, inklusive intervjuer och deltagande observation med nuvarande och tidigare SDA-aktivister, undersöks hur bosniaker navigerar i ett omtvistat politiskt landskap präglat av allianser med västmakter och spänningar med serbiska och kroatiska motsvarigheter. Västmakterna utgör fältets meta-kraft och de serbiska och kroatiska politiska aktörerna dess meta-analytiker. Resultaten belyser en patron/klient-dynamik med externa aktörer, interna debatter om medborgerlig kontra etnisk nationalism och historiska gemenskapsstrukturers bestående påverkan på modernt statsbygge. Genom att erbjuda nya empiriska insikter i SDA-aktivisternas perspektiv och en sociologisk ram för att förstå splittrade stater bidrar denna avhandling till forskningen om post-osmanskt nationsbygge och politisk fältteori, och belyser även bredare mönster av politisk desintegration i samhällen som präglas av mångfald.
Mellan medborgerligt och etniskt : Partiet för demokratisk aktion och den symboliska kampen för en bosnisk-hercegovinsk stat
No full textThis thesis examines the persistent political fragmentation of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the role of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and the strategies of Bosniac political actors from the 1995 Dayton Agreement to the 2022 elections. Situated within the complex legacy of the Ottoman millet system and post-communist state-building, the study investigates how SDA activists conceptualise the relationship between Bosniac national identity and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian state amidst ethnic rivalries and external influences. Employing Pierre Bourdieu’s political field theory, adapted to account for the political idiosyncrasies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the research addresses the central question: How have the political strategies and interactions of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), as a key Bosniac political actor, with other influential political actors, shaped Bosnia and Herzegovina’s persistent status as a disintegrated post-war nation-state from 1995 to 2022? Through qualitative fieldwork, including interviews and participant observation with current and former SDA activists, the study reveals how Bosniacs navigate a contested political landscape marked by alliances with Western powers (as the meta-power) and tensions with Serb and Croat counterparts (as the meta-analysts). The findings highlight a patron–client dynamic with external actors, internal debates over civic versus ethnic nationalism and the enduring impact of historical communal structures on modern statehood. By offering new empirical insights into the SDA’s activist perspectives and a sociological framework for understanding fragmented states, this thesis contributes to the scholarship on post-Ottoman nation-building and political field theory, illuminating broader patterns of political disintegration in diverse societies. I den här avhandlingen undersöks den politiska splittringen i efterkrigstidens Bosnien-Hercegovina. Detta görs genom en närmare granskning av bosniakiska politiska aktörers strategier, från Daytonavtalet 1995 till valet 2022, med fokus på den bosniakiska nyckelaktören Partiet för demokratisk aktion (SDA). Studien, som tar avstamp i det komplexa arvet från det osmanska millet-systemet och det postkommunistiska statsbygget, analyserar hur SDA-aktivister begripliggör förhållandet mellan bosniakisk nationell identitet och den bosnisk-hercegovinska staten i en kontext av etnisk rivalitet och externa politiska aktörers inflytande. Utifrån Pierre Bourdieus teori om det politiska fältet, anpassad för att ta hänsyn till Bosnien-Hercegovinas politiska särdrag, behandlas den centrala frågan: Hur har SDA:s politiska strategier och interaktioner med andra inflytelserika politiska aktörer format Bosnien-Hercegovinas status som en splittrad efterkrigsnation från 1995 till 2022? Genom kvalitativt fältarbete, inklusive intervjuer och deltagande observation med nuvarande och tidigare SDA-aktivister, undersöks hur bosniaker navigerar i ett omtvistat politiskt landskap präglat av allianser med västmakter och spänningar med serbiska och kroatiska motsvarigheter. Västmakterna utgör fältets meta-kraft och de serbiska och kroatiska politiska aktörerna dess meta-analytiker. Resultaten belyser en patron/klient-dynamik med externa aktörer, interna debatter om medborgerlig kontra etnisk nationalism och historiska gemenskapsstrukturers bestående påverkan på modernt statsbygge. Genom att erbjuda nya empiriska insikter i SDA-aktivisternas perspektiv och en sociologisk ram för att förstå splittrade stater bidrar denna avhandling till forskningen om post-osmanskt nationsbygge och politisk fältteori, och belyser även bredare mönster av politisk desintegration i samhällen som präglas av mångfald.
Pornography Induced Erectile Dysfunction Among Young Men
Get PDFThis paper explores the phenomenon of pornography induced erectile dysfunction (PIED), meaning sexual potency problems in men due to Internet pornography consumption. Empirical data from men who suffer from this condition have been collected. A combination of topical life history method (with qualitative asynchronous online narrative interviews) and personal online diaries has been employed. The data have been analyzed using theoretical interpretative analysis (according to McLuhan’s media theory), based on analytic induction. The empirical investigation indicates that there is a correlation between pornography consumption and erectile dysfunction that suggests causation. The findings are based on 11 interviews along with two video diaries and three text diaries. The men are between the ages of 16 and 52; they report that an early introduction to pornography (usually during adolescence) is followed by daily consumption until a point is reached where extreme content (involving, for example, elements of violence) is needed to maintain arousal. A critical stage is reached when sexual arousal is exclusively associated with extreme and fast-paced pornography, rendering physical intercourse bland and uninteresting. This results in an inability to maintain an erection with a real-life partner, at which point the men embark on a “re-boot” process, giving up pornography. This has helped some of the men to regain their ability to achieve and sustain an erection
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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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