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The production of neoliberal subjectivities: constellations of domination and resistance
No full textThe last 50 years have been marked by many remarkable events, historic shifts and technological breakthroughs that have challenged societies and driven change. Over the course of this period a revolution – sometimes quiet, other times violent and vicious – has also taken place. The rich ecology of our economic, political and social systems have become imbricated and enmeshed by a particular outlook; an outlook that has reshaped behaviours and expectations across scales – from the global to the most intimate of spaces. Neoliberalism, whether rolled out through the establishment of institutions to further the project, or rolled back via de-regulatory measures (Peck, 2010), has penetrated the worlds in which we live. There is the roll call of familiar names: economists, beginning with Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman through to leaders who uncompromisingly pushed the ideas, making them ‘fit’ with reality: Augusto Pinochet, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Yet, it is not the macro-level policies and change that this volume is concerned with. It is the absorption of neoliberal thought and the co-constituting processes that have contributed to a common-sense acceptance of neoliberal policies, not just through the subsequent actions of elite interests, but through the interiorisation of neoliberalism into our very beings. Thus, the development, production and reproduction of neoliberal subjectivity is a key point of interest herein. And intertwined with this subjectivity, at the edges of hegemonic processes, lie grey areas of domination and resistance. These constellations allow the exploration of identity in the face of this expansionary neoliberal project. And it is here, at the edges of identity of neoliberal subjectivity, that we situate our study
Urban transformations in Phnom Penh: creative collectives, the white building and the production of space
No full textIn this chapter we explore the evolving role of art and storytelling programmes in an inner-city building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, known as the White Building.1 This work rep-resents a tentative exploration into a community of people and their history – their cultural work and their identity. We chart the history of the Building from the late 1950s, before focussing on art and storytelling programmes from 2008 to the present. The underpinning concept of the programmes under analysis has been around establishing a vision for communal transfor-mation and then acting on that vision through an iterative process of action and reform. Within this setting, art and story-telling practices have become a way of articulating pluralistic modes of struggle in a post-conflict society that is dealing with the onset of a new neoliberal order of accumulation and dis-possession. Importantly, these practices look both to the past and to the future. Our interests in these practices lie, in part, through applying a Lefebvrian lens to problematize the contes-ted and dominated nature of the space within which these emergent forms of expression take place. We argue the possi-bility that the dominant discursive acts of the more powerful can be challenged through the expression of the ‘lived’ and the elevation of everyday life. Furthermore, we argue that the very perception of the space and the sense of place can be (re)produced through these alternative interactions. Indeed, it is hoped – if the emerging White Building community can hold off govern-ment interests and property developers – that current and future programmes play a role in transmitting an inclusive vision of a subaltern community as a form of resistance that comes from, but extends beyond the everyday (see Davies, 2016)
Book Review: World Wide Weed: Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and its Control by Tom Decorte, Gary R. Potter & Martin Bouchard, editors
Get PDFBook Review: World Wide Weed: Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and its Control by Tom Decorte, Gary R. Potter & Martin Bouchard, editor
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
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