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What have we learned? A concluding essay on wicked problems, research and the contributions of community development
No full textThis conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores several community development researchers aimed to re-frame the discourse of Wicked Problems and create new spaces for potential community development contributions. It illustrates how importing the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework into indigenous practice can be highly problematic, at least if not locally adapted. The book discusses the power of an external intervention, but one well balanced with a dialogical practice sensitive to the co-learning at play between practitioners, policy makers and local actors. It describes the dynamic interplay of systems, institutions and local places, demanding of practitioners a sophisticated framework of working up and down, in and out. The book discusses how the research journey itself helps the researcher embrace a spirit of discovery and also discover a decolonising ethic of research practice. It focuses on the quality of the researcher, co-create, see and search in "forms of collective world-making"
Wicked problems and community development – an introductory essay
No full textOver 60% of the world’s 19.5 million refugees now live in urban areas (UNHCR, 2017), many in protracted exile, denied the protection of citizenship, legal residency rights and formal work rights (Morand et al., 2012). In the absence of durable solutions which would restore the possibility of protections afforded by citizenship through return to their home countries, local integration in their country of asylum or resettlement to a third country, these refugees continue to live in an extended urban limbo with few formal human rights protections. In this chapter, we explore the possibilities and challenges of rights-based community development initiatives in this context to foster and support autonomy and political participation in the absence of either legal rights of residency or citizenship. It highlights ways, without formal civil and political rights, that refugees engage in political activity and explores how this can be amplified through rights-based community development initiatives. We use Gidden’s notion of ontological security to demonstrate the positive impact that both fostering and recognising the agency and political action of refugees can have in sustaining resilience and wellbeing, until durable solutions through which refugees’ citizenship is restored, can be achieved
From ‘dilemmatic space’ towards ecological practice: Community development in disaster recovery in Queensland, Australia
No full textThis chapter draws on empirical research and examines the work of state-employed community development officers (CDOs) engaged in a response to natural disasters within the state of Queensland, Australia. It examines state-led community development practice through the lens of "practice dilemmas", a concept that is particularly helpful in illuminating the practice-policy interface challenges. The chapter considers as a result of those dilemmas the possibility of reimagining community development practice within the frame of organic or ecological practice. It explains the context of the research, and locating it within a body of literature. The chapter discusses the research methodology and CDO roles, three main findings are considered through the lens of the dilemmatic space. It also focuses on community development within disaster contexts, which is used as a way to mobilise local resources in the phases of community prevention, preparation, response and recovery
Soul, community and social change : theorising a soul perspective on community practice
No full textAt a time when inequalities are growing globally, when the pace of socio-economic transitions is rapid, and when traditional ties of community are under threat of dissolving, 'soul' offers a new way of thinking imaginatively about how people might respond both individually and collectively in social change work. In exploring ideas such as soul, soulful, 'soul of the world' and soul-force, Peter Westoby invites readers to disrupt their taken-for-granted assumptions about community practice and to foreground ethics, quality, being and the aesthetic. Drawing on work of people such as James Hillman, Thomas Moore and 'Bifo' Beradi, he insists on the need to bring more depth into practice, eschewing contemporary trends of soulless analysis, measuring, and technique. Written in dialogue with eight practitioner-scholars from around the world, the book suggests a fresh terrain for community work and social change theorising. Illustrated by images of Australian cartoonist-prophet Michael Leunig, the book also promises to unlock new imaginative spaces for dreaming. A soul perspective will resonate with people searching for both a robust socio-political response to the world and an imaginative, poetic and mindful centring of self, 'other' and the planet to their practice
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Safeguarding the soul of community-based organisations – in dialogue with Lynda Shevellar
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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