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Housing justice, mobilization, and financialization: A conversation from the Antipode Institute for Geographies of Justice
No full textIn June 2022, a group of activists, students, and scholars gathered in Barcelona for the 8th annual International Geographies of Justice Summer Institute (IGJ), Housing Justice in Unequal Cities, co-sponsored by Antipode and the UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy. IGJ attendees included people from within movement and activist spaces, academics, and non-profit organizations who share the common vision of working toward housing justice. This article features a collective conversation that took place with IGJ attendees who participated in a public panel discussion attended by activists, community members, and people interested in hearing from local and international panelists about the state and direction of the housing justice movements in Glasgow, Berlin, New York, and Barcelona respectively. Thematically, the conversation held among IGJ attendees to produce the following manuscript focused on the broad and interconnected pillars of housing injustice that repeatedly arose in conversation throughout our time together in Barcelona, including financialization, activism and organizing, and housing justice movements broadly speaking
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
Manufactured Commons: Collective Ownership and Differential Commoning
No full textIncludes table of contents, images, bibliographyThis thesis grapples with the emergence and details of collective ownership in the midst of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’. While the two chapters are each designed to stand alone – with the intention of eventually submitting them for publication – together they offer a broader analysis of propertarian and socio-spatial issues operating in some manufactured housing cooperatives. The first chapter, “From Crisis to Cooperative: Expressing a Collective Right to Shared Equity and Governance in Manufactured Housing Communities,” considers converging social, political and economic relations within manufactured housing cooperatives. Here, I highlight the opportunities of, and challenges to, this ownership model in the midst of what might be considered a housing affordability – or even housing privatization – crisis. Specifically in this chapter, I consider how the members of three manufactured housing communities are exerting their (collective) right to housing, negotiating the relationship between private and shared equity, and developing a culture of democratic governance. Along with a renewed interest in property in general, there is also recently more
attention to ‘the commons’ in the geographic literature. Much of this discourse tends to be framed in terms of defending against the enclosures of neoliberal globalization, where the commons have become a reactive rather than a proactive category. However, some geographers are starting to (re)imagine the commons as “generative spacing,”. In this vision, rather than a static and bounded space or resource, the commons is an active process of spacing or continually
reconceptualizing space, place and social relations. It is this commoning – or “doing” of the commons – and what it means for the everyday production of socio-spatial relations that I explore in the second chapter, “Beyond Tragedy: Differential commoning in a manufactured housing cooperative.” Specifically, I consider one manufactured housing cooperative as an enactment of ‘an actually existing commons,’. In doing so, I highlight elements of the nitty-gritty, essential relations that are constantly being (re)negotiated in this particular commons. This allows me to reframe the commons as a space of complex becoming and seemingly paradoxical relations. The struggle to collectivize in this instance, I suggest, illustrates the need for situated engagements with commoning practices – particularly within the context of multifaceted socio-economic concerns, unsmoothly circulating knowledges and shifting relations to property – rather than investigations operating within the rigidity of economic rationality or the homogeneity of some imagined community. In this context, I consider the possibility of differential commoning and how this set of practices might contribute to political mobilization and alternative modes of social reproduction
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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