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An ideal activist in a privileged society:Studying the internal negotiations and practices of being a young Danish activist
No full textConceptualisations of political participation are undergoing drastic changes, partly spurred by young people’s changing patterns of participation; this calls for new understandings (Loncle et al., 2012; Marsh et al., 2007). Most studies either measure young people’s political participation based on formal criteria, such as participation in elections, political parties and youth counsels (Walther et al., 2019), or they associate youth political participation with a “youth rebellion” (Lieberkind, 2021), hence searching for new “rebellious” forms of political action (Pitti, 2018). Both approaches have led to contemporary youth participation being found to be lacking, which has consequently produced a deficit discourse, defining young people as apathetic (Marsh et al., 2007; Marsh and Akram, 2015), alienated (Stoker, 2017), and decoupled from political systems (Bang, 2011). To counter this deficit discourse, recent research hasdemonstrated that young people are not disengaged (e.g., Loncle et al., 2012), but still participate in politics in both formal and more rebellious ways (Milkman, 2017), as well as in ways that are not visible through conventional lenses (Bessant et al., 2017; Pickard and Bessant, 2018b). As a part of this endeavour, researchers have argued that everyday micro actions and political agency should be seen as much more interwoven, introducing conceptualisations such as “everyday makers” (Bang and Eva, 1999) and “lived citizenship” (Lister, 2007a; Smith et al., 2005; Walsh et al., 2018; Wood, 2014). This turn towards highlighting everyday practices and negotiation as political allows us to see all the micro-social practices and negotiations as constitutive of young people’s participation and of political change in both the young people themselves and society at large (Batsleer et al., 2017; Percy-Smith, 2015; Wood, 2014). These perspectives on the political within the micro-social realm have primarily been applied to nuance how performing citizenship (Kallio et al., 2020) is done through informal everyday activities. A few studies of youth activism have applied a micro perspective to nuance studies of what motivates activists (Ojala, 2012). For example, Nielsen’s (2019) study of university student activists stresses that they not only work to affect traditional political arenas, but also develop an internal reflective perspective that produces discussions and reflections on marginalised voices, their own privileges, and hierarchical meeting structures. With a perspective on everyday interactions, it becomes interesting not only to study the major transformation in what societal changes youth activists aim to bring about, but likewise to look inside the youth organisations to study the ideals that guide how young people negotiate and practise what they perceive as the right way to be activists
Using a human rights lens:Learning from children's activism
Get PDFA new wave of children’s activism is gathering apace, from children’s school strikes for climate change, to the call for gun control in the USA. As children claim their own spaces, for their own priorities, this provides an opportunity for the children’s human rights field to consider how it can support such initiatives and also learn from them. This chapter asks how children’s activism can be understood through a human rights lens, drawing on researched examples of children’s activism to illuminate the answers. The chapter concludes by suggesting how such activism encourages support for children’s participation beyond the minimum requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Child, recognises children as political actors, repositions children as knowledge holders, and thus redistributes power within intergenerational relations
Steps in Walking the Talk: How Working with a Student Consultant Helped Me Integrate Student Voice More Fully into My Pedagogical Planning and Practice
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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
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education
No full textThis handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice practices in college and university settings, but also to identify the common core elements, enabling conditions, constraints, and outcomes associated with student voice work in higher education. It offers a broad understanding of the methodologies, current debates, history, and future of the field, identifying avenues for future research
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