1,720,958 research outputs found
Stop Mugging Grandma: The ‘Generation Wars’ and Why Boomer Blaming Won't Solve Anything Jennie Bristow, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT and London, 2019, 258 pp., hbk £18.99, ISBN 13: 978-0-300-23683-5
No full textTherapeutic or detrimental mobilities? Walking groups for older adults
No full textThe health benefits of walking through greenspace have earned widespread academic attention in recent years and have been termed ‘therapeutic mobilities’. As a result, walking groups are actively encouraged by health professionals as a way to promote ‘healthy ageing’. This paper examines whether the promotion of community-led walking groups relies upon overly optimistic understandings that portray walking in greenspace as an inherently therapeutic practice. Accordingly, this paper introduces the concept of ‘detrimental mobilities’ to explore how the shared movement promoted via walking groups may not always be inherently therapeutic and may have some detrimental impacts on the individuals who take part in these activities. Drawing on findings from in-depth walking interviews with older members of the ‘Walking for Health’ scheme in Southampton, England, this paper examines how mobilities have the potential to disable, as much as they enable, health and wellbeing
Growing precarity in the UK: An examination into the everyday lived experiences of homesharers
No full textEnduring neoliberalism has made life in the UK increasingly precarious. The housing market is overstretched, access to care provision has been termed a ‘postcode lottery’ and levels of loneliness continue to rise. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, these issues have been exacerbated and insecurity and uncertainty have become more pervasive. As the UK enters its second decade of austerity, alternative models of care and housing provision are arising and UKhomeshare is one such model. Homeshare involves an older adult with a spare room being matched with a younger person who completes ten hours of informal care tasks for the older person per week (activities such as cooking, cleaning and providing companionship). Both the older adult with the spare bedroom and the younger adult completing the care tasks pay a monthly fee to a homeshare organisation who arrange homeshare matches and provide ongoingsupport.UK homeshare has been portrayed by homeshare organisations, the media andpolicymakers as a solution to the UK’s housing, care and loneliness crises. Through understanding the everyday lived experiences of homesharers, this thesis examines if this portrayal is in line with homesharer experiences or if, like other so-called crisis solutions, homeshare actually works to contribute to growing precarity in the UK. The data within this thesis comes from 16 in-depthinterviews with homesharers (and 2 interviews with the daughters of older homesharers). This thesis examines homesharing through the lens of everyday lived experience and provides key insight into how precarity is entwined into the everyday for homesharers.Firstly, I explore people’s motivations for homesharing, examining the making, unmaking and remaking of homes. In doing so, I analyse a central characteristic of participants’ homeshares: insecurity. This shows how in coming to homeshare, people attempt to navigate uncertain situations and precarity. Secondly, I examine co-homesharer relationships, analysing if these canprovide important social bonds in challenging times, and questioning if relationships built out of requirement can be valuable or lasting. Finally, I focus on the labour involved in homesharing, considering what this means in terms of precarity for homesharers and exposing the hidden labour that is involved in homesharing. Overall, the findings of this thesis provide an originalcontribution to geographical and sociological scholarship into precarity, exploring how precarity interweaves into everyday life, actions, feelings, decisions and relationships – vital research in an increasingly precarious society
Mapping lesbians’ everyday community-making in a small city: (in)visibility, belonging and safety
No full textThis paper presents findings from a project exploring how lesbians make community in the ‘ordinary city’ of Southampton on the South coast of England. In the context of trans-exclusionary debates and the supposed demise of lesbian spaces, we sought to discover how self-identified lesbian people in Southampton conceptualised the location and boundaries of their community, The study used collaborative participatory mapping techniques, which resulted in a diffuse and multi-layered understanding of lesbian community in the city. The paper focuses on three key themes: (1) crafting ‘safe’ spaces; (2) terminology: naming ‘lesbians’ and (3) finding and creating places of community. The paper concludes that finding a space to articulate an explicitly lesbian identity can be fraught, but is deeply valued, continually becoming, and carefully negotiated both between peers and within urban space. Collaborative mapping is shown as a valuable tool in delivering more inclusive participatory research that can help foster transformative and emancipatory research into LGBTQ communities and spaces
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
- …
