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Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare
No full textIn this introductory chapter we aim at providing the reader with the analytical tools to understand urban social policies. In particular, we address the territorial dimension of social policies and the role of cities as building blocks of social inclusion strategies. Our task is to disentangle the role and interplay between different jurisdictions, policy instruments, politics and contexts in the spatial construction of social policies and of their differences. Analytically, this entails addressing space an important dimension in this process, rather than considering it merely a container where social phenomena take place. This truism is at the very basis of the production of differentiated opportunity structures that contribute to territorialised patterns of social stratification, but also influence the way in which policies respond to shocks like the 2008 crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic
Handbook on Urban Social Policies. International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare
No full textCare as multi-scalar policy: ECEC and LTC services across Europe
No full textThe chapter focuses (from a European perspective) on the territorial architecture and implications of two main specific fields of care policies: early childhood education and care (ECEC) and long-term care (LTC). It shows how, in each of these fields, care policies include the combination of several policy tools that are regulated and implemented through complex multi-scalar structures. Such structures vary strongly across countries, but also show a certain degree of coherence, which cuts across the two policy fields observed by virtue of the basic features of the care regimes. The localization of care policies may have contributed to widespread territorial coverage of such policies, and also to a development of non-standardized policy responses, able to consider local specificities in terms of the type and intensity of care needs. That being said, criticalities also emerge, like risks of territorial inequalities in the provision of care services and stronger and more diffused inter-scalar tensions within a context of permanent austerity
Migration Policies at the Local Level: Constraints and Windows of Opportunities in a Contentious Field
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After the Crisis: Reform, Recovery and Growth in Europe<i>,</i> edited by F. Caselli, M. Centeno and J. Tavares (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 9780198754688); xviii+200pp., £45.00 hb.
No full textGoing 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
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