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Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity
Get PDFWith power comes responsibility, as Wyndam Lewis (and spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism. An essay which critically explores masculinity through the activities of three famous creatives; counterintuitively Lewis is used to expose flaws in the 'neo-liberal' positions
Participatory methods: researching autistic sexuality, intimacy, and authenticity
No full textThere is increasing interest in participatory methods within autism research, and a corresponding pressure to incorporate participation and collaboration with autistic people throughout research processes. However, details as to how to proceed remain under-reported. There is a paucity of literature laying out detailed, step-by-step attempts to integrate participatory methods into research projects. This lacuna constitutes an additional barrier to participatory methodologies, which, despite considerable interest on the part of researchers in the field of autism, may already be perceived as time-consuming and complex. This chapter, therefore, reports in detail on the participatory processes utilized during the author’s doctoral research exploring autistic accounts of sexuality, intimacy, and authenticity, concentrating on methodological and practical issues related to the participation of, and collaboration with, autistic people and communities during the research process
Critical autism studies: roots and branches
No full textAs with Neurodiversity Studies, Critical Autism Studies (CAS) traces its roots to early autistic activism before emerging as an academic field, and the line between activism and academia remains blurry. Academically, CAS has had something of a bumpy ride, with certain challenges from within sometimes appearing to risk its implosion. Today, however, CAS seems reinvigorated and as relevant as ever. This chapter describes the movements and developments within CAS since it was first mentioned in writing as an academic field, using the analogy of ‘branches’ to describe three inter-connected schools within the field. It then considers some recent developments in the field before turning to a reflection on the relationship between CAS and Neurodiversity Studies (NDS). This chapter is intended as a broad, introductory, and structural overview of the development of CAS and its relationship with NDS. It does not constitute a who’s who of all those involved in the field (if such a thing were possible) nor does it discuss the many contributions from different disciplines that have contributed to its development
Unknowing as a methodological tool: autism, authenticity, and epistemic injustice
No full textIt has become something of a truism in certain circles to say that the road to epistemologically and ethically sound autism research requires the inclusion of autistic input into research processes. However, autism research is still overwhelmingly dominated by medical, psychological, and associated disciplines in which an assumption of autistic deficit is omnipresent. The processes supporting and perpetuating epistemic injustice in autism research are therefore intricate, long-standing, deeply entrenched, and powerful. As things stand, is the inclusion of autistic perspectives sufficient to disrupt the circular logic which characterizes much research in the field? What are some potential pitfalls of inclusive or participatory research in the current climate? While participation clearly holds value, is it the panacea that we have been led to believe? Or do we first need to unknow much of what we have been led to believe about autism, or indeed neurodivergence more broadly? This chapter critically analyzes these and other questions. To do so, it takes as a case study the largely absent concept of authenticity in autism research, relating this absence to epistemic injustice. The chapter goes on to propose the potential of unknowing as a methodological tool for Neurodiversity Studies, concluding with an unknowers toolbox, with concrete suggestions for integrating unknowing into research practice
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
Research methods and ethics in neurodiversity studies: looking back, moving forward
No full textChapters throughout this book have considered the methodological, ethical and epistemological possibilities—and challenges—of new ways of reflecting on and carrying out research on neurodivergence. They do this in a number of ways: identifying and proposing ways to mitigate epistemic injustice; critically examining both the potential and the tensions of participatory and inclusive approaches; elaborating creative methodologies to think through and carry out cross-neurotype collaborations; and centring neurodivergent voices in knowledge production processes. Here, the editors look back at the wealth of propositions in this volume to reflect on what ‘moving forward’ in Neurodiversity Studies might resemble. Each chapter section is built around a methodological and/or ethical theme, and ends with an accessible toolbox, collated from the contributions to this volume, to encourage and guide researchers as they set out to do research differently. We concludes with a consideration of the potential reach of unknowing as a foundational tool for research methods and ethics in Neurodiversity Studies
An introduction to research methods and ethics in neurodiversity studies
No full textIn this introductory chapter, the editors present the logic behind this, the first edited volume dedicated to questions of research methodology and ethics within Neurodiversity Studies. The chapter first gives some background to the field, setting it briefly in the context of neurodiversity approaches more broadly, and then presents the logic behind the book. Without seeking a definitive or exhaustive definition of this emergent field, the editors go on to lay out some of the key concepts and tensions within Neurodiversity Studies. The chapter concludes with a summary of the 26 chapters in this collection
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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