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Preventing/countering violent and hateful extremism in Morocco and Tunisia : understanding the role of civil society and international assistance
No full textIn light of the growing threat of violent and hateful extremism in North Africa, the international donor community has recently shifted its focus of attention towards civil society organisations (CSOs) as an important ally in contemporary P/CVE efforts. This has resulted in a growing number of local and international NGOs implementing P/CVE-related projects in Tunisia and Morocco. However, the lack of comprehensive empirical research on local CSOs engagement in P/CVE-efforts complicates the assessment of scope and impact of these initiatives. Little attention has been devoted to the perspective of front-line workers and the ways global P/CVE-policies are being reproduced and challenged on the ground. This paper aims to contribute to a broader understanding of challenges employees of local and international NGOs face in implementing P/CVE in non-Western contexts. Drawing on peacebuilding and development literature, it focuses on the experiences and practices of these actors and their interplay with the international donor community. 30 in-depth narrative interviews with local practitioners and international experts root this paper in rich empirical data that was analysed using Grounded Theory methodology
Living on the Edge: Everyday Security in North African Borderlands
No full textThe shared border regions between Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia constitute a blind spot in security research due to their sensitive nature and the critical security implications arising from it. Border dwellers are particularly affected by aggressive security policies, yet their perspectives are often missing in larger security debates.
This dissertation addresses this gap by examining everyday security narratives and practices of borderland communities on the Tunisian and Moroccan sides of the respective regions. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including 96 in-depth interviews across the Oriental region in Morocco and the Gafsa, Kasserine, Kef, and Jendouba regions in Tunisia, it sheds light on how borderland communities navigate everyday security within the distinctive socio-political and geographical contexts of their environments.
Notwithstanding their marginalization, borderlands are also reservoirs of powerful resources for their inhabitants. Influenced by both their proximity to an international border and their peripheral status within national frameworks, these liminal zones face communities with unique challenges, but also with opportunities that shape local everyday security practices and discourses. Accordingly, this thesis combines emerging literature on everyday security with borderland studies to develop an integrated security-from-borderlands framework centered on the perspective of their residents. By doing so, it positions borderlands as critical sites of inquiry that offer valuable insights into broader debates on security and state borders.
This study finds that for border dwellers, a ‘secure life’ is closely tied to border permeability and the opportunities it provides. Fortification efforts in the name of national security increase feelings of isolation and uncertainty, restrict everyday mobility and arbitrarily fragment social life. However, border populations actively demonstrate resilience as they navigate, adapt to and resist state-driven border conceptions and practices through community care, self-organization and the development of alternative senses of belonging.
By bridging borderland studies and critical security studies—two hitherto largely disconnected fields—this dissertation opens new pathways for re-conceptualizing borderlands not merely as insecure spaces at state margins but as dynamic spaces where security is constantly negotiated and redefined
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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