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Devolution, state personnel, and the production of new territories of governance in the United Kingdom
No full textAs a result of the creation of a Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies, and the devolution of power to various regional bodies in England, there has been a substantial territorial refocusing of governance within the United Kingdom. Much has been written in the social and political sciences concerning this change, especially with regard to the formation of new institutions of governance. Less is known concerning the connections between state personnel and this institutional and territorial transformation. In this paper we seek to remedy this deficiency. Drawing on empirical evidence from the English regions, we suggest that devolution is shaped by, and also shapes, the actions and strategies of a variety of state personnel in the different territories. Developing the idea of the state as a 'peopled organisation', we thus emphasise the significance of state personnel in actively producing the United Kingdom's new territories and scales of governance. This allows for an examination of the ways in which state personnel, working within different territorial branches and scales of the state, are able to accommodate, revise, or resist broader political projects
Doing human geographies
No full textThis chapter presents a clear account of what is expected in the study of human geography at university level. It illustrates ways of learning to practice human geography, and it highlights the importance of the self in human geography learning, reinforcing the personal elements of forming appropriate arguments. The chapter emphasises positional and situational elements of knowledge and argument, acknowledging the potential for biases and blind spots as well as the importance of ethics. Different ways in which human geography can be approached are illustrated via vignettes of personal human geography journeys in different cultural contexts
Understanding human geographies
No full textIn the Preface we used the idea that this book can be seen as a ‘travel guide’ to the subject of human geography. In this opening chapter we set out the broad terrain the guide covers by introducing you to the contents of the subject and to its evolution. As you will have noticed, especially if you are reading (and carrying around…) the hard copy of the book, this fourth edition of Introducing Human Geographies has a lot in it. Its contents are diverse. But that is because the academic subject of human geography is itself diverse. We contend that this diversity and breadth is one of the attractions, and indeed one of the strengths, of the subject. How did this come to be the case, and how did human geography come to be the subject that it is today? Answering these questions lies at the core of this chapter, which does two main things. First, we focus on what unites this variety by addressing head on the question ‘What is human geography?’. Second, we expand on the kinds of approaches and styles of thought that have shaped the subject as it has evolved across the years. Putting these two elements together should give you an understanding not just of what human geography is but also of how it is a subject that is actively made and shaped by those who practice and study it. We want to get away from the notion that there is a neat, delineated body of knowledge that is called human geography, which can be learnt by successive generations of students, and introduce the idea that human geography is constantly shaped and reshaped by new waves of ideas and knowledges, which are built on what has gone before. This is why this is the fourth edition of this book, and why each edition is different from the one before. This is also why human geography is such an exciting subject to study
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
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