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More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam
No full textThis thesis is a qualitative study that explores borders and bordering practices which have constructed, shaped and continue to reshape the contemporary Indian state of Assam. Using mixed methods including community-based research, the thesis critically examines Assam as a site of bordered citizenship girded by a bordering apparatus with historical antecedents which continue to shape Assam’s present. Drawing on an extensive body of literature which problematises traditional ideas of borders as being purely physical and/or geo-spatial, this thesis argues that conceptualisations of borders and border practices construct Assam as a place of shifting spatial imaginaries, while simultaneously shaping and reshaping it within bounded, bordered logics and technologies of control. Assam reflects multiple shifts in the socio-economic and political demographics of the region. The empirical work of this project builds towards a reconceptualisation of Assam as a space of bordering with multiple layers, including but not limited to the colonial plantation complex, and the legacy of commodity production - namely rice and tea - in the region, labour and migration patterns. A topographical landscape of rivers and valleys shape economic and social practices, and the geopolitical territorial maintenance and surveillance of boundaries surrounding and encompassing Assam over time. As this thesis argues, Assam has been an experimental site of bordering practices, more recently exerted through bounded notions of citizenship, manifested by the implementation of the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019. Over time, the Indian state has pushed Assam to the front and centre as well as the peripheries in its experimentation with documentary citizenship. Through an analysis of data collected for this project, the thesis highlights the intersecting nature of class, caste, gender, religion and language dynamics, all of which have variously contributed to the shifts and transformations in bordering practices, and the resultant violence arising therefrom. Finally, the thesis also illustrates individual and community acts of subversion and transgression, which I analyse as acts of ongoing resistant responses. Understanding these dynamics contributes to our understanding of bordering as action and response, at multiple levels and microsites in Assam
“Mulgi shikali, pragati zali”? Reimagining education, development, and progress with rural girls in India
Get PDFThis thesis critically explores the significance of education in the lives of rural and Adivasi girls in India, situating it within a conceptualisation of education as a double-edged “weapon”. Examining how gender, development, and education orthodoxies collude in the development project of educating marginalised girls in India, my research interrogates assumptions about the “promise” of education to bring about social and economic progress, and instead highlights the ways in which girls’ education is instrumentalised or even weaponised towards the reproduction and maintenance of agendas such as neoliberalism and neocolonialism. Further, through participatory methodologies that centre the voices and experiences of rural and Adivasi girls from the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, my research considers the structural factors mediating girls’ access to education, the particular subjectivities produced within girls’ educational encounters, and the ways in which girls negotiate, resist, or reimagine these subjectivities to interrupt dominant narratives of education as an unquestioned vehicle towards progress. In doing this, I recast education as simultaneously a weapon of destruction and restructuring linked to historical and ongoing forms of colonisation, as well as a weapon of “de-construction”, enabling us to become aware of as well as deconstruct the structural webs enmeshing us. Centring the voices of marginalised girls who are silenced within development scholarship and policy discourse, my research contributes to critical and feminist epistemologies that push the boundaries of knowledge production. Through this epistemic engagement with girls, the thesis develops “dhadpad” – a Marathi term denoting struggle – as a theoretical lens which disavows the agent/victim binary and makes visible the ongoing negotiations, covert resistances, and collective forms of struggle of rural girls within and against structural limits. Situating this dhadpad in education and other pedagogic processes, this thesis highlights their potential to radically expand dhadpad as well as collectivise it towards shared liberatory goals
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
Occupational health problems of municipal solid waste management workers in India
Get PDFPurpose: Occupational health risks are potential negative health effects that one may experience while working. Around the globe, 2.1 billion tonnes of garbage are created annually, and municipal solid waste workers (MSW) or municipal workers often handle this rubbish. They put in a lot of overtime, so managing the garbage generated is not a simple chore. Throughout the waste management process, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) employees encounter occupational pressures that negatively impact their well-being and lead to a high prevalence of occupational health issues. To protect MSW workers\u27 safety and wellbeing, it is essential to comprehend their work practices and occupational morbidities.Aim: The objective of this research was to evaluate the occupational health issues that municipal solid waste management employees face.Method: In this regard, the research sought to investigate the workplace safety and occupational health practices of MSW employees in Karnataka, India. A cross-sectional descriptive research was carried out among Karnataka, India\u27s solid waste management employees. The research comprised all 408 employees, of whom 313 (77%) took part. Direct interviews and clinical examinations utilising a standardised questionnaire were used to gather data. Clinical examination revealed the observed morbidity, which included nail infections, dermatological issues, ocular disorders, and respiratory ailments. Self-reported complaints and physician diagnoses were used to determine the point prevalence of additional occupationally associated health events that occurred during the study period or during the one-month recall period and that happened after entering the current occupation.Results: 42.5 ± 7.2 years was the average age. The observed morbidity, which varied from 21% to 47%, was substantial and included respiratory, ocular, dermatological, and nail infections. Occupational morbidities such as falls (63.6%), accidents (22%), injuries (73.2%), and aquatic vector-borne diseases (7.1%) were observed to be quite prevalent. All of the main joints are affected by the present prevalence of musculoskeletal morbidities (17–39%).Conclusion: The miserable conditions of employment and high workplace morbidities among MSW workers in Karnataka, India, are highlighted in this research. The MSW personnel found it challenging since the workplace lacked basic facilities. Socioeconomic status, education, and unfavourable working circumstances all contribute to the likelihood of occupational risks. The many health effects that municipal employees experience while working are highlighted in this article. It is necessary to establish a holistic strategy that prioritises the MSW workers\u27 health and safety while including social security. Waste handlers must have access to ergonomically designed protection gear, clean drinking water, and facilities for washing and sanitation throughout working hours in order to enhance their working conditions
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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