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Labour in the Transition to the Circular Economy
No full textThe Circular Economy (CE) is an economic project based on object design, reuse, recycling and transformation that aims to limit the extraction of resources, waste and pollution to a minimum. It is a mode of production that seeks to respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene, namely global warming and the ecological crisis. Nevertheless, it is not always obvious to what extent CE practices and models take into account the social aspects of transitioning, in terms of decent wages or working conditions for a dignified and healthy life. In this chapter, we aim to show the importance of the perspective of labour to design circularity. Recent Just Transition (JT) literature, on the other hand, emphasizes how workers themselves can lead or design social transformation from a CE perspective, creating high-quality employment. This is a social justice requirement in line with both JT as demanded by workers’ organisations and international trade unions, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as preached by the United Nations. On the one hand, CE could benefit from workers’ knowledge about productive processes. On the other hand, a marginalisation of labourers would put CE at risk of entrenching – if not deepening – social inequalities. Thus, rethinking CE from the perspective of workers implies respecting five fundamental pillars of the JT: 1) Maintaining a high level of employment (quantitative approach); 2) Ensuring decent jobs and wages (qualitative approach); 3) Taking into account the capability of workers themselves to design CE-inspired labour processes (subjective approach); 4) Rethinking CE models from the perspective of women's informal or unpaid subsistence work (feminist approach); 5) Including to migrants, racially discriminated people and non-citizens in the composition of the workforce (decolonial approach)
BOOK REVIEW: Responsibility beyond innovation
No full textReview of Responsibility Beyond Growth. A Case For Responsible Stagnation, by Stevienna de Saille, Fabien Medvecky, Michiel van Oudheusden, Kevin Albertson, Effie Amanatidou, Timothy Birabi and Mario Pansera, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2020, pp. 168, £15.99 (hardback), ISBN 978152920817
Assisted Living-prosjektet
No full textOsloMet Skriftserie 2020 nr 4
Forfattere: Erik Thorstensen, Flàvia Dias Casagrande, Adele Flakke Johannesen, Liv Halvorsrud, Torhild Holthe, Dag Karterud, Hilde Lovett, Anne Lund, Sindre Kjeang Mørk, Evi Zouganeli, Julia Hahn, Miltos Ladikas, Ruud ter Meulen, Richard Owen, Mario Pansera, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Reidun Norvoll
ISSN 2535-6992 (online)/ISBN 978-82-8364-238-4 (online
Un marc per a una economia circular justa
No full textEn aquest estudi, en què participa en Mario Pansera del Departament d'Empresa de la UAB, es proposa modificar l'enfocament econòmic de l'economia circular incloent també la perspectiva de la justícia social. Aquest nou paradigma, el de l'economia circular justa, posaria el focus de la transició a aquest model posant per davant els principis de justícia social i mediambiental en comptes d'abordar-lo com un mer repte tecnocràtic.En este estudio, en el que participa Mario Pansera del Departamento de Empresa de la UAB, se propone modificar el enfoque de la economía circular incluyendo también la perspectiva de la justicia social. Este nuevo paradigma, el de la economía circular justa, pondría el foco de la transición a este modelo poniendo por delante los principios de justicia social y medioambiental en vez de abordarlo como un mero reto tecnocrático.This study, in which Mario Pansera from the Department of Business of the UAB participates, proposes to modify the circular economy approach by also including the perspective of social justice. This new paradigm, the just circular economy, would put the focus of the transition to this model by putting the principles of social and environmental justice first instead of approaching it as a mere technocratic challenge
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
The Assisted Living Project
No full textOsloMet Skriftserie 2020 nr 3: The Assisted Living Project
Authors: Erik Thorstensen, Flàvia Dias Casagrande. Liv Halvorsrud, Torhild Holthe, Adele Flakke Johannessen, Dag Karterud, Hilde Lovett, Anne Lund, Sindre Kjeang Bjørland Mørk, Evi Zouganeli, Julia Hahn, Miltos Ladikas, Ruud ter Meulen, Richard Owen, Mario Pansera, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Reidun Norvoll
ISSN 2535-6992 (online)/ISBN 978-82-8364-237-7 (online
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