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Accessible public space for the ‘not obviously disabled’ : jeopardized selfhood in an era of welfare retraction
No full textIntroduction : disability, space, place and policy : new concepts, new ideas, new realities
No full textGeographies of disability and spatial geographies have rightly taken their place in the wider canon of disability research and disability studies. That disablement is a spatial issue seems at one level a truism; however a key driver for this edited collection is the perception that the wider panoply of geographical insights on disability, embodiment and the emplaced body has not been applied that systematically to the forms of policy and legal exclusions experienced by disabled people in contemporary society. Indeed notions of policy and space rarely sit together save for a small number of descriptive readings of building regulations and anti-discrimination legislation and guidance. Policy has not to date been conceptualised as a spatial phenomenon. Policy is often reified as natural and fixed, at least once it is formulated. We argue that policy spaces and their relationship to physical, psycho-social and ontological spaces afforded to disabled people need to be central to our understanding of social space and enabling/disabled society. Social policy both emanates from and continually remakes the spaces or constraints that directly influence disabled people’s life opportunities. To reflect such new insights we aim to respond to such an absence of critical attention and to engage more fully notions of disability, policy and space. Both policy and law embody constructions of ‘right’ bodies and minds and thus frame current and future social possibilities for disabled people. Space, for example, being able to occupy freely certain public, private or even ‘taboo’ spaces, is heavily inscribed with disablist notions of just what is possible given disabled people’s capability, capacity and reason. In the chapters that follow we draw on the commissioned writings of geographers, sociologists, policy and disability studies academics to provide a range of insights into the nature, reproduction and challenge to the spatial and policyinscribed exclusion of disabled people. We take as our cue a number of important preceding works that have been published in what might be framed as disability geographies, and which help set the scene for the work that follows. Such works focus on matters as diverse as physicality and commodification (Gleeson, 1999; Hansen, 2002), disability and spatial justice (Butler and Parr, 1999; Kitchin, 1998), the spatial dynamism and boundaries of disabled bodies (Haraway, 1991), ableism (Imrie, 1996 ; Kumari-Campbell, 2009 ), and the fl uid biographical identity that negotiates, traverses and navigates a range of complex social spaces, places and landscapes (Chouinard et al. , 2010 ; Crooks et al. , 2008 ; Imrie, 2007 ; Maddern and Stewart, 2010 ). The chapters that follow aim to expand the current geographical frame of reference operating within the realm of disability; intersecting three critical, yet often contrasting, ideas, of disability, space and place, and social policy regimes. Through critical conceptual analysis and based on empirical insights, the chapters explore how current policy and legal regimes re/map, re/frame and re/shape divergent spatial relations and realities for disabled people. In this context, the spatial is not confi ned to the material and structural alone. A key feature of a number of chapters that follow are their attempts to disclose the diverse ways disability and spatial relations are constructed symbolically, culturally and materially. Thus, the book challenges readers to consider the ‘multifaceted spatial dimension’ of social policy for disabled people and the imposition of altering policy regimes that confi ne, override or disguise the spatial dimension of social life for disabled people. For example, changing welfare regimes not only have profound consequences in terms of their fi nancial settlements for disabled people, but represent a profound-reframing of belonging, legitimacy and selfhood
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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