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An Exploration of Human Geography Departments’ Accessibility to Students with Disabilities
No full textAs part of the effort to better understand the experiences of students with disabilities, this study examines accessibility in Human Geography departments. Human Geography is known for its excursions and field studies, which brings the question of how they adapt their situations for disabled students. Also, how Human Geography departments identify disability and prevent discrimination. The study involves interviewing teachers at three departments of Human Geography at three different universities, those are Stockholm, Uppsala, and Mid Sweden University. To ask the question of how they adapt their education for disabled students. The findings suggest that Human Geography departments fail to mainstream special education and that they lack institutional support in making education inclusive and accessible for disabled students. Furthermore, there is a communication gap between students and the departments, and guidelines are not helpful or non-existing in defining how to make education for disabled students more accessible and adaptable. They identify disability by certificates and prevent discrimination by communicating with the disabled students.
Unseen, Unheard, Unprotected : The Human Rights Gap in Addressing Sexual Violence Against Boys and Men in Conflict
No full textSexual violence against boys and men in conflict and humanitarian aid settings remains a profoundly under-researched and under-reported phenomenon. Dominant humanitarian discourses have historically focused on the victimization of women and girls, reflecting broader gender norms that construct men as invulnerable and thus incompatible with narratives of victimhood. This thesis investigates how sexual violence against male survivors is reported and how dominant discourses (particularly militarized masculinity and securitization) influence their recognition and treatment as victims within humanitarian responses. Drawing on qualitative data, including an analysis of humanitarian reports and semi-structured interviews with humanitarian practitioners, the study examines the cultural and institutional barriers that contribute to the continued invisibility of male survivors. The analysis is grounded in the theoretical frameworks of militarized masculinity and securitization theory, demonstrating how societal expectations of male strength and gendered protection priorities mutually reinforce the marginalization of male victims. The findings reveal that male survivors are systematically excluded from humanitarian aid structures due to entrenched gender norms and selective securitization processes that prioritize women and girls as the primary victims of conflict-related sexual violence. Humanitarian aid structures, including clinics and reporting mechanisms, are predominantly designed with female survivors in mind, leading to service gaps, stigmatization, and silence among male victims. The thesis concludes that addressing the marginalization of male survivors requires a fundamental rethinking of how gender, vulnerability, and security are conceptualized and operationalized within humanitarian practice. Future research should prioritize survivor-centered methodologies, cross-cultural comparisons, and longitudinal studies to foster more inclusive, equitable, and effective protection systems for all survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
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
An Exploration of Human Geography Departments’ Accessibility to Students with Disabilities
No full textAs part of the effort to better understand the experiences of students with disabilities, this study examines accessibility in Human Geography departments. Human Geography is known for its excursions and field studies, which brings the question of how they adapt their situations for disabled students. Also, how Human Geography departments identify disability and prevent discrimination. The study involves interviewing teachers at three departments of Human Geography at three different universities, those are Stockholm, Uppsala, and Mid Sweden University. To ask the question of how they adapt their education for disabled students. The findings suggest that Human Geography departments fail to mainstream special education and that they lack institutional support in making education inclusive and accessible for disabled students. Furthermore, there is a communication gap between students and the departments, and guidelines are not helpful or non-existing in defining how to make education for disabled students more accessible and adaptable. They identify disability by certificates and prevent discrimination by communicating with the disabled students.
Unseen, Unheard, Unprotected : The Human Rights Gap in Addressing Sexual Violence Against Boys and Men in Conflict
No full textSexual violence against boys and men in conflict and humanitarian aid settings remains a profoundly under-researched and under-reported phenomenon. Dominant humanitarian discourses have historically focused on the victimization of women and girls, reflecting broader gender norms that construct men as invulnerable and thus incompatible with narratives of victimhood. This thesis investigates how sexual violence against male survivors is reported and how dominant discourses (particularly militarized masculinity and securitization) influence their recognition and treatment as victims within humanitarian responses. Drawing on qualitative data, including an analysis of humanitarian reports and semi-structured interviews with humanitarian practitioners, the study examines the cultural and institutional barriers that contribute to the continued invisibility of male survivors. The analysis is grounded in the theoretical frameworks of militarized masculinity and securitization theory, demonstrating how societal expectations of male strength and gendered protection priorities mutually reinforce the marginalization of male victims. The findings reveal that male survivors are systematically excluded from humanitarian aid structures due to entrenched gender norms and selective securitization processes that prioritize women and girls as the primary victims of conflict-related sexual violence. Humanitarian aid structures, including clinics and reporting mechanisms, are predominantly designed with female survivors in mind, leading to service gaps, stigmatization, and silence among male victims. The thesis concludes that addressing the marginalization of male survivors requires a fundamental rethinking of how gender, vulnerability, and security are conceptualized and operationalized within humanitarian practice. Future research should prioritize survivor-centered methodologies, cross-cultural comparisons, and longitudinal studies to foster more inclusive, equitable, and effective protection systems for all survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
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
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