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Whiteness from within
No full textWhite Western social workers should not take leadership in a process of decolonisation, but they can have an important role in terms of the critique of whiteness from within. We can identify three stages of such a process which apply both to practice and to knowledge: first is stepping aside, without condition, so that other knowledges, world views and practices can take the lead. The second is falling in behind to learn from the leadership of Indigenous and other non-Western colleagues. Only after these two stages can the third stage, walking beside in solidarity, be reached, with an opportunity for genuine dialogue. From a white Western perspective, seven areas are identified for the decolonisation of social work knowledge: the dominance of individualism, the English language, the use of metaphor, the use of story, valuing and understanding history, the place of creative and performing arts, and relationships with the nonhuman world
Decolonising social work vocabulary
No full textSocial workers often label people, families, groups or communities as ‘vulnerable’. The very idea of ‘social work assessment’ assumes that a social worker is better able to ‘assess’ a person or family than they can themselves – and this is the essence of colonialism. Social work that increases a person’s capacity within Western institutions, structures and processes can readily become colonialist, especially for a person from a different cultural background. It may well be that the person has considerable capacity to function within a particular context, but social work practice aims to impose a different context and thereby devalues the person’s capabilities and marginalises their wisdom and expertise. Evidence-based practice hardly encourages the decolonisation of social work knowledge. The professional model has ascribed primary expertise to the social worker, rather than to those with whom that social worker is working
Social work, science and green politics
No full textThis chapter recounts my engagement with green politics, and my interest in linking this radical world view to social work and social policy. It describes events in Perth in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but like all intellectual and practice journeys it had earlier origins, and later consequences, which need to be briefly recounted in order to place the chapter in its historical context, and within my own biographical experience
An afterword : from personal retrospectives to future activism
No full textThe chapters in this book represent a broad range of activism and issues. It is not a ‘balanced’ selection, and represents in part the vagaries of the process of producing a collection such as this. Some potential authors were unable to contribute to the collection, because of work or personal commitments, and had they been included the range of topics would have been different. In addition, authors were given the freedom to choose their topics; some chose to tell the story of their career, including several different issues for activist engagement, while others chose to concentrate on only one or two aspects of their work; again, different choices would have led to a different coverage of topics. This has resulted in a collection where some issues are perhaps over-represented, while others are less well covered. The selection of topics also reflects the period of which we are writing, and the topics that were seen as important, engaging the attention of social workers, at the time. So it is worth a more detailed reflection on the issues covered in this selection, and more significantly perhaps on the issues that are absent, as we look back on the period 1970-2000 with the advantage of hindsight
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
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