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Troublemakers and Hell Raisers: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry of How Neoliberal Systems Shape the Experiences of Asian American Student Activists in Higher Education
Get PDFNeoliberalism continues to exacerbate systemic racism and restricts efforts to address racial and social justice issues. Consequently, there has not only been an increase of public concern, but students are constantly driven to organize around their experiences. Asian American students are currently and have historically been one of these communities engaging in activism. Yet, there continues to be ongoing and pervasive misconceptions that they do not encounter any challenges related to race contributing the dismissal of their voices and experiences in postsecondary education. Consequently, scholarship surrounding Asian American student activists is still developing and there is still much to be explored in understanding their racialized experiences.Through a critical qualitative inquiry, this dissertation study aimed to understand how neoliberalism shapes the experiences of Asian American college student activists. Findings revealed two core categories 1) how aspects of neoliberal culture were experienced by activists and 2) how it shaped the ways students navigated their activist work. The first category contained five subsequent sub-themes: 1) profit motives over people, 2) a culture of precarity, 3) an ethos of self-interest, 4) normalized exploitation of People of Color, and 5) advanced hyper-surveillance systems. The second category revealed an additional five sub-themes: 1) contextualizing students’ activism and advocacy, 2) encompassing collectivist approaches to activism, 3) strategically engaging in the university, 4) dealing with activism pressures, and 5) prioritizing refusal and rest.By engaging neoliberal frameworks in a rigorous empirical project, it deepened our collective understanding of how racialization of Asian Americans and neoliberalism are not mutually exclusive. It also provided critical insight and essential knowledge about how neoliberalism can be detrimental to students so we can better support and foster their development. This topic also contributed to the growing body of knowledge surrounding student activists and Asian American experiences, as well as the administrators, faculty, staff, and other key stakeholders interwoven within the academy. Finally, it further underscored how student activism is not solely a critique or resistance of neoliberal systems, rather it can also serve as sites of critical hope and a desire for transformative and systemic change in postsecondary education
Who Am I? Cultural Identity Formation of Arab American Youth
Get PDFArab American youth are a complex and diverse population in America who are often misunderstood, misclassified and misrepresented. These youth face a socio-political climate in the United States that has painted the Arab culture in a negative light. This has caused psychological and emotional stressors on them, some of which are negatively affecting their ability to embrace their Arab identity. Another reaction to these stressors is a complete rejection of their American identity, putting a strain on their ability to assimilate into American society. Coupled with this are the challenges Arab American youth face in navigating their identity through their home life and their school life, which at times contradict one another. At school, students are being discriminated against and othered. Moreover, Arab American students are battling a disconnect between the social norms of their school life and home life. Using an adapted framework from Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model of Human Development, this qualitative exploratory case study examines the factors that lead to cultural identity development in Arab American youth. Through interviews of seven Arab American youth this study serves to enlighten administrators, faculty of K-20 agencies and parents on how to best support this population in positively forming their cultural identity
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
New directions for institutional research
No full textPubl. comme no 142, summer 2009 de la revue New directions for institutional researchIndexBibliogr. à la fin des texte
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
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