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Bodies and psychiatric medicine: interpreting different geographies of mental health
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Mental health, public space, and the city: questions of individual and collective access
No full textIn recent revisionings of disablement andgeography, conceptions of the body, of deviancy, and of thesocial construction of difference have been interrogated. The author arguesthat it is important not to neglect a critical geography of mental healthin this broader rewriting of disability and ableism. Empirical examplesare drawn from research in Nottingham, UK. These examples show how people with mental health problems access the public realmthrough individual (and often disruptive) use of urban spaces,possibly as strategies of resistance to imposed medical identities. Inthe second half of the paper the author documents a more collective political process occurring through 'user movements' which have facilitated patientpower and patient influence in the places of therapy spread across thecity
Double the trouble or twice the fun? Disabled bodies in the gay community
No full textThe London Gay Pride march is repeatedly led by the disability rights banner, but the disabled 1 contingent of the crowd are marginalised in the parties which follow it by ‘the cult of “body beautiful” and celebration of glamour and glitz’ (Corbett 1994:345). The same ableist obsessions with the perfect body which have been noted by feminists as strongly affecting women's lives (Baker 1984; Wolf 1990), and by disability activists as heavily influencing disabled people's lives, run deep in the gay ‘community’ 2 . As a result many disabled lesbians, gay men and bisexual individuals (LGBs) 3 feel the need to attend Pride festivals, not to support gay rights, but to draw the LGB population's attention to their disabled members (Shakespeare et al. 1996). This chapter questions why, how and at what cost disabled people remain marginalised in the gay ‘community‘
Workspaces:Refiguring the disability-employment debate
No full textThere is no doubt that disabled people are in a disadvantaged position in relation to employment in Britain. More disabled people are unemployed, in lower status occupations, on low earnings, or out of the labour market altogether, than nondisabled people (Martin et al. 1989; Berthoud et al. 1993; Labour Force Survey 1997). However, it is less clear why this situation has occurred, how it happens and what makes change so difficult. This chapter aims to provide a starting point for understanding this situation. There are three parts to this ‘refiguring’ of the disability-employment debate: first, a questioning of the two main interpretations of the disability-employment relation; second, introducing the social theorising of ‘the body’ into both the disability and the employment debates; and third, through a case study, using the theory of the ‘body’ to develop an embodied and spatialised understanding of the disability-employment debate
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
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