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Beyond The Rhetoric: A Critical Analysis of the Women’s Access to Justice in Malawi in Relation to the Right to Equitable Distribution of Matrimonial Property upon the Dissolution of Marriage
No full textThis dissertation, written by a judicial officer from Malawi, examines the women’s
right to access justice in matters concerning distribution of matrimonial property after
a judicial dissolution of a marriage. The study was provoked by many complaints and
misgivings by women over decisions by courts concerning distribution of property
after divorce.
The study adopted women’s law approached to investigate the women’s lived realities
with the legal system in accessing justice in matters of distribution of matrimonial
property. The investigation was through case studies, interviews and focus group
discussions which enabled the researcher to uncover legal and customary dynamics
that influence court’s decisions and women’s approach to the courts. The study
unearths that most women hardly know their rights to a fair share of matrimonial
property upon divorce. It was discovered that women have problems to come to terms
with claims of their rights in the courts. Apart from that, even where women have
been awarded a share in property there were several impediments by the judicial
system that hamper women’s enjoyment of the judgments by the court. The study
found that problems that render women unable to access the legal remedies range
from insufficient mechanisms of enforcement of the judgment, anti-women cultural
perspectives and indifferences, and evasiveness of the men who might still be in the
custody of the property.
The study unearths observable traditional patriarchal tendencies of regarding some
property as belonging to men at the expense of women’s rights and expectation.
Therefore, much as the law provides for the rights of women to fair share in property
and access to justice, some enforcement actualities obviously make women not to
attain these rights in reality. There is a missing link in civic education thereby making
Malawi failing to meet its international human rights obligations on the rights of
women to access justice and equitable distribution of the property.
To remedy all this, the study suggests that there is need to address the mind-set of the
society by incorporating gender-friendly judicial and legal processes, including
provision of legal aid to women, and invoking civic education to all on the issues of
rights of women, general human rights and non-discrimination. The dissertation also
suggests that there should be deliberate steps to enable women access justice without
many hurdles
Beyond the rhetoric: A critical analysis of the women’s access to justice in Malawi in relation to the right to equitable distribution of matrimonial property upon the dissolution of marriage
No full textThis dissertation, written by a judicial officer from Malawi, examines the women’s
right to access justice in matters concerning distribution of matrimonial property after
a judicial dissolution of a marriage. The study was provoked by many complaints and
misgivings by women over decisions by courts concerning distribution of property
after divorce. The study adopted women’s law approached to investigate the women’s lived realities with the legal system in accessing justice in matters of distribution of matrimonial property. The investigation was through case studies, interviews and focus group discussions which enabled the researcher to uncover legal and customary dynamics that influence court’s decisions and women’s approach to the courts. The study unearths that most women hardly know their rights to a fair share of matrimonial
property upon divorce. It was discovered that women have problems to come to terms
with claims of their rights in the courts. Apart from that, even where women have
been awarded a share in property there were several impediments by the judicial
system that hamper women’s enjoyment of the judgments by the court. The study
found that problems that render women unable to access the legal remedies range
from insufficient mechanisms of enforcement of the judgment, anti-women cultural
perspectives and indifferences, and evasiveness of the men who might still be in the
custody of the property. The study unearths observable traditional patriarchal tendencies of regarding some property as belonging to men at the expense of women’s rights and expectation. Therefore, much as the law provides for the rights of women to fair share in property and access to justice, some enforcement actualities obviously make women not to attain these rights in reality. There is a missing link in civic education thereby making Malawi failing to meet its international human rights obligations on the rights of
women to access justice and equitable distribution of the property. To remedy all this, the study suggests that there is need to address the mind-set of the society by incorporating gender-friendly judicial and legal processes, including provision of legal aid to women, and invoking civic education to all on the issues of rights of women, general human rights and non-discrimination. The dissertation also suggests that there should be deliberate steps to enable women access justice without many hurdles,NORA
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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