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Conclusions
No full textFrom the vantage point of this chapter on our conclusions, we summarise how this book illuminates what the concept of a specifically epistemic type of injustice has to offer socio-legal analysts. The epistemic aspects of injustice comprise more than knowledges, meaning and understanding, to include the supporting material and discursive (infra)structures for their production and dissemination arising in space/place/time. This book focuses on legal and regulatory arrangements, and the forms of knowledge and meaning they carry and with which they interact, in order to bring to light their spatial and place-relatedness or boundedness, which includes their temporal dimensions at various scales. The book also contributes towards law and geography and methodology, in particular by highlighting the importance of author positionality and reflexivity, and pausing so as to bolster the development of humility and sensitivity for more fully informed studies on epistemic injustice and its ameliorations
Introduction
No full textOur overall aim in this book is to explore what the concept of a specifically epistemic type of injustice has to offer socio-legal analysts, particularly in terms of rendering more central to discussions knowledges and experiences that may otherwise remain marginalised due to epistemic injustice. Our interest is in epistemic injustice and the spaces and places, including temporalities, in, through or across which law and legal and regulatory arrangements, and the knowledges, meanings and understandings they carry, play a co-constitutive role. Space is understood as social relations that put boundaries around, divide and connect things that are gradually imbued with meanings that provide them with stability over time. Through the accretion of meanings over time, space prefigures and shades into place. Place, then, is understood as varying permanences (and thus temporalities) of social relations within space through which people develop the meanings of law and legal and regulatory arrangements. While social relations, materiality and temporality are important across space and place, temporality appears to be even more important to the constitution of place than space. It is in relation to space, place and, especially, temporality——or simply space/place/time——that we believe this collection makes its most important contribution to analyses of space and place, and through them to epistemic injustice, at various scales. Our intuition is that the conditions for epistemic injustice may become even more durable in respect of place than space, given the centrality of temporality to the very transformation of former into the latter, thus making it harder to achieve epistemic justice
Socio-legal studies on epistemic injustice and spaces and places
No full textThis edited collection illuminates what the concept of a specifically epistemic type of injustice has to offer socio-legal analysts. The epistemic aspects of injustice comprise more than knowledges, meaning and understanding, to include the supporting material and discursive (infra)structures for their production and dissemination arising in space/place/time. This book focuses on legal and regulatory arrangements, and the forms of knowledge and meaning they carry and with which they interact, in order to bring to light their spatial and place-relatedness or boundedness, which includes their temporal dimensions at various scales.
These highly innovative studies of epistemic injustice encompass the responsibilisation of patients in the North of England and Northern Ireland, housing, the systemic operations of law, the construction of digital spaces by algorithms, hospital discharges, case law affecting Indigenous communities in Kenya, the experience of mining disaster in Brazil, and the perspectives of rare diseases patients in Austria during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The book contributes towards law and geography, in particular through the emphasis on temporality as part of space and place. By highlighting the importance of author positionality and reflexivity, and pausing so as to bolster the development of humility and sensitivity for more fully informed studies on epistemic injustice and its ameliorations, the book also advances methodology for future studies
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
Law, biomedical technoscience, and imaginaries
No full textThe first law-led collection of papers on imaginaries. This inaugural special issue advances discussion between law and science and technology studies
Law, biomedical technoscience, and imaginaries
No full textThe first law-led collection of papers on imaginaries. This inaugural special issue advances discussion between law and science and technology studies
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