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Refugees United: The role of activism and football in supporting refugees
No full textIt was a bitterly cold February day and the opportunity to run around a bit was an exciting prospect. Although jeans, hoodie and a coat are not the most practical of football kits, they were essential for staying warm in the camp. Calais in winter is unforgiving as the sea breeze whips off the Channel. It was even harsher for those living in the ‘Jungle', the refugee camp on the edge of the French town. Even though I was volunteering in a medical clinic, the lack of heating provided an added incentive to my task of supplying cups of tea and coffee to those visiting. Wrapping up warm was also essential as I chatted to the young visitors whilst they were either waiting to see a nurse or doctor or simply wanting some respite from the cold. It is a humbling experience to realise that you have few practical or life essential skills, so making tea and having a chat was all I could do. Yet this was also life affirming and it reiterated the power of seemingly mundane social interactions. It quickly became apparent that an easy way to connect and communicate with the predominantly male refugees was through football. The global expanse of European football ensured that Arsenal, Real Madrid and Barcelona were popular and easy topics of conversation. Different people from across the globe, who had vastly different life stories, could connect over a cup of tea and the relative merits of Leo Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. It was a short step from these conversations to having a kickabout. The French authorities had just cleared the southern part of the camp in an attempt to try and prevent more refugees from arriving. At the same time a ‘buffer zone' was created to obscure the camp from the public gaze of motorists on the motorway that whisked people away from the ferry terminal. The buffer zone did provide a flat sandy area that was particularly suitable for football. Jumpers became goalposts and the kickabout commenced. In one emotionally intense weekend, it became clear that football had an important role to play. As a sociologist, volunteering in the ‘Jungle' ove
Something has got to be done about this: Transforming Sport, Selves, and Scholarship
Full text linkIn this chapter we assert the need for a transformative approach to conducting research on sport. The transformative approach, which we call Critical Proactivism, insists upon the scholar taking an active political stance in conducting research with an explicit purpose for attempting to transform sport and the ways knowledge is produced about sport. We argue in this chapter, and introduce the various ways the contributors to this volume demonstrate, that it is not enough to call for change within sport, but efforts to transform the very power relations and institutional structures of sport
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
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