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Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar. By Natalie Brinham, Routledge, 2024, 258 pp.
No full textSocial Movements that 'think': Knowledge-practices of the Rohingya Canadian social movement
Full text linkThe Rohingya Canadian social movement is becoming well known across the country. Its development is remarkable given the obstacles activists face: an extensive history of intergenerational state repression in Myanmar, the international community’s ambivalence about intervention, and resettlement challenges. Bearing in mind what prevailing social movement literature already posits about why and how social movements endure, scholarship has yet to fully appreciate how a small community of newcomers can create a social movement. Perhaps what needs further exploring — missing from dominant social movement theory — is a movement's intellectual activities. Social movement scholarship in political science seldom focuses on the 'thinking' aspect of movements, preferring to analyze what movements ‘do.’ One recent vein of research has conceptualized this activity through the term, 'knowledge-practices.' Knowledge-practices are processes in which knowledge is generated, modified, and mobilized (Casas-Cortes, Osterweil, & Powell, 2008). I adopt the knowledge-practices typology (della Porta & Pavan, 2017) to analyze a dataset derived from 70 interviews and two years of participant observation. The empirical evidence suggests that the Rohingya Canadian social movement has developed four types of knowledge-practices, or the 'in-house research' necessary to contend against the genocide in Myanmar and the refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It has established an ethos and political vision based on collective responsibility, awareness and resolve. The movement has also figured out how to seize political opportunities and build coalitions with diverse sectors. Further, participants have presented policy options to the government. Finally, the movement has cultivated its transmission techniques based on affective solidarity to increase engagement. In other words, the movement is writing its 'how-to' manual for resolving the genocide and the refugee crisis. The implications of these findings are three-fold. First, movements can develop and articulate novel interpretations of the world, in this case, genocide in Myanmar and a humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh. Second, knowledge-practices are analytically important because they reflect the movement's inventive brainpower. Third, the typology of knowledge-practices is enhanced in four ways. I detail the type of foundational beliefs that guide the movement; the crosscutting sectors that make up the action network; the courage that political alternatives entail; and the role of affective solidarity in transmission techniques. These findings demonstrate that we need to continue to wrestle with the 'thinking' aspect of movements.2021-12-0
Out on the Shelf: Community Needs Assessment Data Summary
Full text linkThis report provides key findings from an online survey seeking to better understand the needs of the LGBTQ+ community of Guelph Wellington. It was conducted as a component of a larger collaborative project at the University of Guelph involving the Research Shop (Community Engaged Scholarship Institute), Out on the Shelf (OOTS), and the Centre for Business and Student Entreprise (CBaSE)
Guelph Wellington Taskforce for Poverty Elimination: Avenues for Creating an ID Bank
Full text linkThis report was prepared for the Guelph-Wellington Poverty Taskforce to inform the creation of an ID Bank for homeless and vulnerable clients. It summarizes information gathered through interviews with with four ID banks in Ontario and provides an overview of the monetary, operational and logistical requirements needed to initiate and maintain an ID Bank
Out on the Shelf: Strategies for Rebuilding and Reconnecting
No full textThis report explores the ways in which not-for-profit organizations serving the LGBTQ+ community deliver their services and programming, meet the needs of the community, and adapt to change and difficulties. It summarizes the findings from informational interviews with six not-for-profits across Canada in order to inform the decision-making processes of the Guelph-based organization Out on the Shelf (OOTS) as they undergo organizational restructuring
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
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