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Exploring agency enactments of women farmworkers in South Africa's Western Cape province
Get PDFThis thesis explores the subjective meanings inhering in individual purposeful agency among women who are, or have been, farmworkers in South Africa’s Western Cape province. Existing research has highlighted gendered dimensions of farm labor on commercial farms in South(ern) Africa (Addison, 2019; Hall, 2013; Lazzarini, 2017; Rutherford, 2001; Rutherford & Addison, 2007) and the Western Cape (Eriksson, 2017; Randle, 2014; Scully, 1997; Visser, 2016; Waldman, 1996). These findings firstly reveal the gendered experiences of farmworkers. Secondly, they underscore the need to understand the processes through which women enact agency to/through work.
To gain a deeper understanding of these processes, this study pursues a conceptually- rooted examination of empirical findings from qualitative research conducted in Western Cape. It explores women’s agency enactments by analyzing the motivations behind their choices and the meanings they attach to particular behaviors. It frames the research through Amartya Sen’s (1999, 2009) capability approach and integrates individual interviews, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and observations in its analysis of women’s individual agency. The thesis presents ground-up conceptualizations of the forms of agency women have, value, and/or pursue. Furthermore, it discusses how individual agency can also, sometimes, be ‘other-related’ when individuals’ choices and actions can be linked to their relational considerations.
The thesis investigates the link between agency and the meaningfulness of individual women’s choices and actions, grounded in understanding what women value instrumentally (as a means to an end) and/or intrinsically (as an end in itself). The project does so by examining women’s control over income (chapter 5), decisions to work (chapter 6), and ideas about the ‘self’ (chapter 7). Thus, the main empirical contributions of this research are: analytically distinguishing control over income as strategic and/or executive; understanding how women’s decisions to work (or not) helps them pursue what they value, and developing a conceptual link between those values and their identities; and examining how the ‘good woman’, a concept of the self that emerged from the data, is an exemplar that relates to some women’s agency. This study contributes to improving our understanding of the subjective dimensions of women’s individual agency
EMPOWERING WOMEN: HOW SHOULD THE OMANI STATE CONTINUE SUPPORTING WOMEN WORKING IN ITS HANDICRAFTS INDUSTRIES?
Get PDFImproving the economic status of women around the world has positive effects on social, economic, and political development. One inequality that women in the MENA have and continue to face is economic inequality, manifested mainly through various barriers from participating in the formal labor force and discrimination at work and public spaces. Women’s empowerment is a frequently cited goal of most countries’ development policies and key to addressing gender inequalities. The field research sought to contextualize women’s empowerment in the handicrafts sector in Oman by soliciting the participants’ reactions on factors that are often used to measure empowerment through work. The paper assesses potential pathways that position employment, and the development of entrepreneurial know-how, within an empowerment approach. Using a qualitative approach, it applies the sustainable livelihood framework to identify several constraints to women’s work and provides a micro-level perspective of Oman’s handicrafts sector
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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