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Place-Based Leadership in Ethnically Diverse Cities: A Subaltern Autoethnographic Account of Moving from the Periphery to the Centre
No full textIn this autoethnographic chapter, the author shares insights into how involvement in racialised minority-led networks and mainstream voluntary sector organisations has the potential to facilitate access to the arenas where place-based leadership is shaped and practised. Drawing on experience in the UK and in Ireland, the author questions the positionality of racialised minority gatekeepers, discusses the challenges of navigating the space between racialised minority networks and mainstream voluntary sector organisations and explores the choices that racialised minority leaders need to make between different types of social capital. Securing social, cultural and political capital is vital to securing and sustaining racialised minority leaders’ access to spaces where place-based leadership debates occur
The Right to Education in East Africa: Lessons Learnt From Personal Experience in Education in Rwanda and Kenya in the 1970s-80s
No full textABSTRACTThe UN Sustainable Development Goals and their predecessors – the Millennium Development Goals emphasise the importance of education in promoting development. By the same token, in many African countries, education is seen as a passport to success. In this article, the author will use the lens of his experiential learning to explore the alignment of the right to education and the actual practices in the delivery of education in East Africa. This will be complimented by reflections on his experience with education in Europe from the mid-1990s onwards.RESUMOOs Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável da ONU, bem como os seus antecessores, os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio, enfatizam a importância da educação na promoção do desenvolvimento. De modo similar, a educação é vista como um passaporte para o sucesso em muitos países africanos. Neste artigo, o autor usa a lente da aprendizagem pela experiência para explorar a coerência entre o direito à educação e as reais práticas de oferta da educação na África Oriental. Em complemento, o autor apresenta reflexões sobre a sua experiência com a educação na Europa a partir de meados da década de 1990 em diante
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Ubuntu and Environmental Security in Africa
No full textThis chapter examines the profound interconnection between the Ubuntu worldview and pressing environmental security issues in Africa and beyond. The Ubuntu worldview emphasises the interconnectedness of humanity and the environment. In the face of escalating environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion, this chapter examines how embracing Ubuntu can offer sustainable solutions for environmental security in Africa. Through an autoethnographic account, the chapter explores how traditional wisdom, passed down through oral history, promoted harmony with nature and constantly reminded people of their role as custodians of the environment. The chapter illustrates how Ubuntu can guide policies and practices toward environmental sustainability by highlighting the importance of community involvement, environmental education, and holistic conservation strategies.
Furthermore, the chapter discusses the role of Ubuntu in shaping ethical environmental policies, promoting social equity, and fostering international collaborations for environmental conservation in Africa. It emphasises the need for a paradigm shift in addressing environmental challenges, moving from conventional top-down approaches to inclusive, community-driven efforts that align with Ubuntu principles. By recognising the intrinsic value of all life forms and embracing the spirit of interconnectedness, Africa can pave the way for a more secure and sustainable environmental future for the continent and the world. This chapter contributes to the ongoing discourse on environmental security by presenting Ubuntu as a valuable ethical framework that offers profound insights and practical solutions, encouraging people to rethink their relationship with nature and advocate for a more sustainable and harmonious coexistence between humanity and the environment in Africa and worldwide
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
I am because we are - the contribution of the Ubuntu philosophy to intercultural management thinking
No full textIntercultural management calls for a global mindset among managers and employees alike and thus people who are open, ready to learn and willing to step outside their own base culture. This type of mindset can provide a fertile backdrop upon which international actors can enlarge their repertoire of management tools and thus their ability to act appropriately in an increasingly globally interconnected business environment.In this paper, we argue that Ubuntu, a philosophy generally perceived as Sub-Saharan African, has much to offer in this context. Therefore, if intercultural management thinking is to consider 'Western' as well as 'non-Western' approaches to management, then we propose that Ubuntu should be integrated into current theories. Ubuntu is particularly relevant since it provides a counterbalance to individualistic and utilitarian philosophies that tend to dominate in the 'West'.The purpose of this paper is thus to expand the understanding of Ubuntu and discuss how the values related to this philosophy can be applied in management practices well beyond Sub-Saharan Africa.Interkulturelles Management erfordert globale Denk- und Handlungsweisen. Voraussetzung dafür sind die Fähigkeit und die Bereitschaft, sich für interkulturelle Lernprozesse zu öffnen und auch vom Anderen zu lernen. Ein solches globales Mindset eröffnet Möglichkeiten, das eigene Handlungsrepertoire zu erweitern und so in einem zunehmend globalisierten und weltweit vernetzten Geschäftsumfeld angemessen und erfolgreich zu handeln. Ubuntu, eine Philosophie, deren Ursprünge im südlichen Afrika zu finden sind, kann in diesem Zusammenhang einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten. Ubuntu sollte daher Teil des Repertoires eines interkulturellen Managements werden, das sowohl 'westliche' als auch 'nicht-westliche' Ansätze berücksichtigt. Dies gilt insbesondere, da es eine Alternative zu den dominant individualistisch und utilitär geprägten Philosophien der 'westlichen Welt' aufzeigt. Das Anliegen dieses Aufsatzes ist es daher, das Verständnis von Ubuntu zu erweitern und zu diskutieren, wie die damit verbundenen Werte in einer Managementpraxis umgesetzt werden können, die weit über das südliche Afrika hinausgeht
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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