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A Dispositional Perspective of Resilience and Power : An Application of Power Asymmetries in Farming Communities in Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago
Get PDFGlobal change processes such as climate change and its impact on food systems, coastal communities and small island states requires us to rethink how sustainable development can be achieved in these coupled environments. As such, one of the core efforts within sustainable development goals is to build and strengthen resilience the resilience of communities and the vulnerable, thereby leaving no one behind on the pathway to development. Yet, development researchers have often criticised the suitability of resilience as an analytical concept as it masks issues that underpin the social. It is well documented by social scientists that the social structure, power asymmetries and culture shape the behaviour of actors and structure what is possible for them in their livelihoods and how they cope with change. A systems thinking of resilience can downplay the role of the social in driving change. To this end, researchers have proposed an actor-oriented perspective of resilience to draw out issues of power, drawing on concepts such as agency, capitals, knowledge, rights to conceptually bridge power and resilience. Yet, capitals, rights, knowledge are not power. This provoked the question of `what is the relation between socialecological resilience and social power?' Could the kind of entities that resilience and power are determine how they are related at a meta level and thus inform how it unfolds on the ground level? In this thesis, I set out to examine the relationship between social-ecological resilience and social power. Through an ontological analysis of resilience and power, it was deemed that both are extrinsic dispositions. This means that apart from the intrinsic properties of a material entity that give rise to these dispositions, extrinisic properties of a material entity also contribute to the possession of these dispositions. Dispositions are manifested through some processes, although they do not have to be manifested to say that they exist. Based on these categorisation and the notion that the social structure shape power and resilience, it further was postulated that resilience and power share a complementary dispositional relationship. This means that when resilience and power are co-located, they will unfold. Through a field investigation of farming communities in Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago this complementarity was explored in two cases: i) between the farmer and land and ii) between the farmer and irrigation systems. Evidence of the co-location of the dispositions are re ected in both cases thus confirming that power and resilience are complementary. Additionally, the extrinsic feature of power and resilience rests on rights. This means that rights contribute to the power and resilience dispositions of actors as rights provide access to resources. Therefore in order to discern who is being left behind or the winners of resilience approaches, a consideration of rights is needed in resilience. Lastly, the dispositional view of resilience informs that resilience manifests in actions. Thus, to analyse resilience within social-ecological systems requires not only capturing the enabling environment but also the processes through which resilience unfolds
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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