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She Inherits, She Sells: community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship
No full textWomen in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control over income. Participants were asked to resolve these issues during performances. The plays were performed between February and April 2024, and phone evaluations were collected between February and June 2024. Our play, She Inherits, She Sells, with the motto ‘anyone can act’, was showcased in two Moroccan regions: Fes-Meknes (four villages) and Souss-Massa (five villages). We analysed transcripts of the nine plays and discussions along with hour-long phone interviews (with 189 women and 53 men) to assess whether the plays led to new learnings, changes in thinking, and if participants felt their voices were heard. Findings reveal young women had the most positive experiences: they expressed their opinions more freely, felt entitled to their inheritance, demanded control over their income, and felt confident about reporting sexual harassment. Young men were proactive in addressing violence against women but less so regarding land rights. Conversely, older women felt that asking for inheritance from their brothers and moving without male protection were taboo, and they were less comfortable expressing their opinions during the plays. We recommend increasing the use of such arts-based awareness-raising interventions, especially with youth, as a promising route for social change.
Les femmes de la région MENA (Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord) affichent les taux les plus faibles de propriété foncière et de participation à la vie active, malgré un niveau d'éducation accru. Les normes socioculturelles sont souvent citées comme en étant la cause. En utilisant la méthodologie du théâtre de l'opprimé, nous avons mené un travail de recherche-action pour aborder les normes néfastes concernant l'héritage, la mobilité, le harcèlement sexuel et le contrôle des revenus des femmes. Les participants ont été invités à résoudre ces problèmes pendant les représentations. Les pièces ont été présentées entre février et avril 2024, et des évaluations téléphoniques ont été recueillies entre février et juin 2024. Notre pièce « She Inherits, She Sells » (Elle hérite, elle vend), dont la devise est « tout le monde peut jouer », a été présentée dans deux régions du Maroc : Fès-Meknès (quatre villages) et Souss-Massa (cinq villages). Nous avons analysé les transcriptions des neuf pièces et des discussions, ainsi que des entretiens téléphoniques d'une heure (avec 189 femmes et 53 hommes), afin de déterminer si ces représentations avaient donné lieu à de nouveaux apprentissages ou à des changements dans la façon de penser, et si les participants avaient eu le sentiment d'être entendus. Les résultats indiquent que ce sont les jeunes femmes qui ont eu les expériences les plus positives : elles ont pu exprimer leurs opinions plus librement, se sont senties autorisées à recevoir leur héritage, ont exigé le contrôle de leurs revenus et se sont senties sûres d'elles au moment de dénoncer les harcèlements sexuels. Les jeunes hommes se sont montrés proactifs dans la lutte contre la violence à l'égard des femmes, mais moins en ce qui concerne les droits fonciers. À l'inverse, les femmes plus âgées estimaient que demander leur héritage à leurs frères et se déplacer sans la protection d'un homme étaient tabous, et elles se sentaient moins à l'aise au moment d'exprimer leurs opinions pendant les pièces de théâtre. Nous recommandons une utilisation accrue de ces interventions de sensibilisation basées sur les arts, en particulier auprès des jeunes, car il s'agit d'une piste prometteuse en vue de changements sociaux.
En la región de Oriente Medio y Norte de África (MENA), las mujeres, a pesar de su mayor nivel educativo, exhiben las tasas más bajas de propiedad de la tierra y de participación en el mercado laboral. En este sentido, las normas socioculturales prevalentes son comúnmente citadas como la causa principal de esta disparidad. Con el propósito de abordar las normas perjudiciales que afectan temas como la herencia, la movilidad, el acoso sexual y el control de los ingresos de las mujeres, se implementó un enfoque metodológico basado en la metodología del teatro del oprimido. Durante las representaciones, se solicitó a los participantes que propusieran soluciones a los problemas planteados. Las obras se presentaron entre los meses de febrero y abril de 2024, y las evaluaciones telefónicas se llevaron a cabo entre febrero y junio del mismo año. Nuestra obra, “Ella hereda, ella vende”, cuyo lema es “cualquiera puede actuar”, se exhibió en dos regiones marroquíes: Fez-Meknes (cuatro pueblos) y Souss-Massa (cinco pueblos). Posteriormente, se realizó el análisis de las transcripciones de las nueve representaciones y de las conversaciones ulteriores, al que se sumaron entrevistas telefónicas de una hora (con 189 mujeres y 53 hombres), cuyo objetivo fue evaluar si las representaciones generaron nuevos aprendizajes, cambios de mentalidad y si los participantes percibían que se les escuchaba. Los resultados obtenidos revelan que las mujeres jóvenes experimentaron las vivencias más positivas, pudiendo manifestar sus opiniones con mayor libertad, reclamar el derecho a su herencia, exigir el control de sus ingresos y sintiéndose seguras al denunciar el acoso sexual. Por su parte, los hombres jóvenes demostraron proactividad al abordar la violencia contra las mujeres, aunque no dieron cuenta de un compromiso equivalente en lo concerniente a los derechos sobre la tierra. Por otro lado, las mujeres mayores percibían ciertos tabúes a la hora de exigir una herencia a sus hermanos y de desplazarse sin protección masculina, así como más incomodidad al expresar sus opiniones durante las representaciones. En conclusión, se recomienda el uso de intervenciones de sensibilización basadas en las artes, sobre todo entre los jóvenes, como una vía prometedora para fomentar el cambio social
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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