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The labor of the good: sustaining Berlin's temporal infrastructure in Turkish-run corner shops
No full textBerlin's spoils (businesses that are similar to corner shops and open late hours and on Sundays) provide their customers with temporal flexibility. Amidst globally-rising xenophobic sentiments, Turkish owners and workers of these shops utilize this temporal quality and organize their work to accommodate the temporal needs of their diverse customers. They synchronize with the life of their neighborhoods and engage in speedy transactions. This temporal arrangement provides a powerful lens to consider how minorities' labor forms the temporal infrastructure of their cities and make minorities vital for their countries. Whereas this case might appear as an example of good things happening m the midst of today's overwhelming negativity, the article encourages research into the labor behind such "good things." Thus, the essay adds to the "anthropology of the good" by showing that things that appear to be "good" might necessitate certain forms of labor, in this case, that of minorities
Almanya’nın 2023 Tarihli Nitelikli İş Gücü Göçü Yasası Üzerinden Nitelikli Göç Politikaları ve İş Gücü Piyasası İlişkisine Dair Bir Analiz
No full textOne of the most discussed social problems in Germany in recent years is its aging population and labor shortage resulting from this demographic change. One of the solutions developed to close this gap is the Skilled Migration Act enacted in 2023. This article examines how the labor market influences skilled immigration policies by analyzing this law as an example. It investigates this relationship by focusing on how the concepts of expertise and qualification, which are both central concepts of migration studies and the sociology of labor and are included in the name of the law in its original language, have transformed through this law. Using the case study method, the article evaluates this change as an illustrative example of the migration policies developed by countries in the global race for skilled migrants. The definition of these concepts in Germany's immigration policies has been stretched in line with the needs of the labor markets. This transformation shows that skilled migration policies can be shaped contrary to anti-immigrant discourses.Almanya’nın son yıllarda en çok tartışılan toplumsal sorunlarından biri yaşlanan nüfus ve bu demografik değişime bağlı olarak ortaya çıkan iş gücü açığıdır. Bu açığı kapatmak için geliştirilen çözümlerden biri 2023 yılında çıkartılan Nitelikli İş Gücü Göçü Yasası’dır. Makale, bu yasa örneği üzerinden iş gücü piyasasının nitelikli göç politikalarını nasıl etkilediğini incelemektedir. Bu ilişkiyi hem göç çalışmalarının ve çalışma sosyolojisinin merkezi kavramlarından olan hem de yasanın özgün dilindeki isminde yer alan uzmanlık ve nitelik kavramlarının bu yasayla birlikte dönüşümüne odaklanarak araştırmaktadır. Makale vaka analizi yöntemini kullanmaktadır ve bu dönüşümü ülkelerin nitelikli göçmen çekmek için girdikleri küresel yarışta geliştirdikleri göç politikaları konusunda açıklayıcı bir örnek olarak ele almaktadır. Bu kavramların Almanya’nın göç politikalarındaki tanımı, iş piyasalarının gereksinimleri doğrultusunda esnetilmiştir. Bu dönüşüm, nitelikli göç politikalarının göçmen karşıtı söylemle tezat oluşturur şekilde biçimlenebildiğini göstermektedir
LÉVI-STRAUSS’UN YAPISALCILIĞINI ALTÜST ETMEK: CİNSİYET BELASI’NI “BÜKÜLMÜŞ BRİCOLAGE” OLARAK OKUMAK
No full textThis article critically analyzes Judith Butler’s presentation of Claude Lévi-Strauss inher book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1999). In thisbook, Butler criticizes feminists for employing Lévi-Strauss’s binary oppositions andtheir use of the sex/gender binary in their critique of patriarchy. Butler’s analysisprovides a fruitful lens to understand how gender operates. However, as the articleshows, this analysis relies on a misrepresentation of Lévi-Strauss’s take on thesedualities. Employing Lévi-Strauss’s term “bricolage,” the article reads Butler’smisinterpretation as a twisted form of bricolage, which destabilizes certainassumptions in Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism. The article presents an example of howLévi-Strauss’s structural theory has influenced not only feminist theory but also itscritique. The article also aims at providing an alternative way to understand influentialgender theorist Judith Butler’s misinterpretation of other scholars
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
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