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Fieldnotes for the UKRI-funded PhD project "Interiorising the borders of the nation: Civic education in Europe and the making of the Muslim citizen"
No full textThe bulk of the data supporting this study is non-digital. It comprises 14 notebooks of handwritten ethnographic fieldnotes taken over a 24-month period of fieldwork in Germany between 2020 and 2022. The aim of this fieldwork was to understand the workings Germany's far-flung sector of 'civic education' (politische Bildung), and to conceptualise the normative agendas of citizenship and belonging operative in the contemporary Federal Republic in particular in relation to citizen-subjects interpellated as Muslim.
These notes comprise participant observation at five different sets of sites:
Dedicated state-funded training seminars for civic educators and social workers
Projects of interreligious and intercultural dialogue
Six neighbourhood youth centres
A series of photography exhibitions commemorating the 'guest worker' labour migration agreement between Bonn and Ankara.
The non-digital data supporting this study are stored by the author in a secure locker at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Fieldnotes for the UKRI-funded PhD project "Interiorising the borders of the nation: Civic education in Europe and the making of the Muslim citizen"
No full text<p>The bulk of the data supporting this study is non-digital. It comprises 14 notebooks of handwritten ethnographic fieldnotes taken over a 24-month period of fieldwork in Germany between 2020 and 2022. The aim of this fieldwork was to understand the workings Germany's far-flung sector of 'civic education' (<em>politische Bildung</em>), and to conceptualise the normative agendas of citizenship and belonging operative in the contemporary Federal Republic in particular in relation to citizen-subjects interpellated as Muslim.</p>
<p>These notes comprise participant observation at five different sets of sites:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dedicated state-funded training seminars for civic educators and social workers</li>
<li>Projects of interreligious and intercultural dialogue</li>
<li>Six neighbourhood youth centres</li>
<li>A series of photography exhibitions commemorating the 'guest worker' labour migration agreement between Bonn and Ankara.</li>
</ul>
<p>The non-digital data supporting this study are stored by the author in a secure locker at the London School of Economics and Political Science.</p>
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
Victims of commemoration: the architecture and violence of confronting the past in Turkey. By Eray Çayli (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022), 264 pp.,Paperback, $29.95
No full textA spiritual state: civic education, Christianity, and the governance of Islam in Germany
No full textIn this dissertation, I investigate normative agendas of citizenship in contemporary Germany, as well as the role Christianity plays in fleshing out this civic ideal. Across Western Europe, (perceived) social and political challenges are met with calls for pedagogical solutions. Much of this educational elan flows from the public problematisation of Muslim minorities as deficient citizens in need of pedagogical guidance through integration classes, citizenship tests, and other dedicated programmes. I critically examine this pedagogisation of democratic citizenship through an ethnography of Germany’s far-flung sector of state-funded civic education. I argue that civic education renders the process of becoming a German citizen as a spiritual project. Rather than teaching a fixed curriculum, educators seek to guide their students on a path of personal self-transformation. Investigating a series of sites—including civic educational trainings for social workers, intercultural dialogue projects, local youth work, and public museums and exhibitions—I analyse how educators’ efforts to craft ‘good’ citizens mobilise testimonial, charismatic, and martyrological practices better-known from religious movements. Protestant organisations play a leading role in civic education. I trace this to the post-WWII rebuilding of the (West) German state, which granted substantial prerogatives to political Christianity. Protestantism is held up as a model for Muslims to emulate—both at the institutional level, where interreligious dialogue seeks to produce a Protestant-style Reformation in Islam; and at the individual level, where Protestant social workers act as spiritual masters to Muslim disciples. Thereby, becoming a good citizen assumes the shape of a religious awakening—sometimes a figurative conversion to Germanness, sometimes literally a conversion to Christianity. These findings generate distinct methodological, political, and theoretical upshots. Methodologically, by relying on 24 months of in-depth fieldwork to explore a series of concepts in political theory, I demonstrate the fruitfulness of ethnography for political-theoretical reflection. Politically, by highlighting how Muslim-oriented pedagogies re-entrench rather than upend patterns of domination, I question widespread assumptions about the capacity of civic education to empower its students. Theoretically, I bridge the divide between the sociology of citizenship and the anthropology of religion to expand existing literatures on European secularism. My dissertation demonstrates the extent to which Protestant Christianity as a lived religious tradition continues to animate ostensibly secular orders, thereby serving as the normative groups upon which the governance of Islam takes place
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
Rethinking governmentality and citizenship in Germany: the spiritual path of civic education
No full textAccording to a dominant diagnosis, democratic citizenship is in crisis in Europe – a claim that has led to flourishing calls for increased civic education to teach ordinary people the norms of ‘good citizenship’. In this article, I develop a sociological critique of this pedagogisation of citizenship. I do so through an ethnography of the German civic education sector. I outline that, since 1945, a large state-funded civic education agenda has recast German citizenship as a project of spiritual becoming. Relying on pedagogical techniques of intimate self-exploration, affective self-revelation and physical embodiment, civic educators strive to cultivate their students’ ethical personhood. Preoccupied with enabling every citizen to display personal uprightness in the face of threats to democracy, this pedagogy runs on moralising ideals of ethical exemplarity and martyrological self-sacrifice. Theoretically, my analysis advances existing conceptualisations of contemporary European citizenship regimes. If scholars have often understood these regimes as a (Foucauldian) governmentality, crucial questions remain about how this governmentality infiltrates civic subjectivities, and how citizen-subjects agentively embrace this governmentality as authoritative for their own lives. I argue that, by drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on spirituality and conversion, we can address these lacunae. This not only closes a gap in governmentality studies and the political sociology of citizenship, it also provides a fresh take on fundamental questions of structure and agency in the social sciences – highlighting how people agentively inhabit governing practices that spell their own subjection
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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