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Data for 'Developing a Citizen Social Science approach to understand urban stress and promote wellbeing in urban communities'
No full textSummary data for 31 participants of the 'Affective capture' project on the topic of urban stress, including World Health Organisation-Quality of Life-BREF and Perceived Stress Scale survey, biodata, participant diary, and researcher commentary on qualitative interviews
“Shaping policy makers’ emotional engagements with behaviour change”
No full text‘Behaviour change’ has become something of a policy panacea across a range of social policy sectors worldwide. There is of course nothing new about the shaping of citizenly conduct. Sophisticated tools of persuasion and more blunt tools of compulsion have long been deployed by state authorities and non-state actors alike. But since at least the mid-2000s, concerted efforts have been made by several national governments to better understand the psychological parameters of decision-making contexts and ingrained human biases. The chapter focuses on participatory action research which the authors undertook with a group of Welsh Government civil servants in Cardiff and Aberystwyth in 2014. This was part of a larger research project on ‘Negotiating Neuroliberalism’ within policy contexts, which has examined the human subject is being re-conceptualised as vulnerable to cognitive biases, mental shortcuts and irrationality – and thus amenable to a wide range of hitherto untested behaviour change techniques
Learning to be global citizens: the rationalities of fair-trade education
No full textThe ethics of everyday consumption has become a key concern for social and environmental justice campaigning by NGOs in the United Kingdom. Schools are a prominent site for such campaigns, where, alongside other 'controversial issues' and initiatives such as citizenship education, the problematisation of consumption practices has developed its own distinctive set of pedagogical devices. This paper questions the analytical framing of education as a space of neoliberal subjectification, in which 'critical pedagogy' is seen as the only legitimate form of resistance within theoretical models of domination - subordination and governmentality. The institutionalisation of fair trade education in schools in Bristol, a city in the southwest of England, is presented as an empirical case through which to consider how best to theorise the rationalities of consumption-oriented campaigning by NGOs. We discuss the consequences of problematising global responsibility where learnign is seen as a performative encounter between reflexive actors situated in particular sociocultural environments
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
Emotional States: sites and spaces of affective governance
Full text linkWhat is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the emergence of an emotional turn in human geography over the last decade, the notion that our emotions matter in understanding an array of social practices, spatial formations and aspects of everyday life is no longer seen as controversial. This book brings recent developments in emotional geography into dialogue with social policy concerns and contemporary issues of governance. It sets the intellectual scene for research into the geographical dimensions of the emotionalized states of the citizen, policy maker and public service worker, and highlights new research on the emotional forms of governance which now characterise public lif
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
The relational spaces of mentoring with young people 'at risk'
Full text linkIn this chapter we examine the relational spaces of emotional work in a mentoring project which deployed volunteer mentors (‘active citizens’) to complement formal structures of state engagement with vulnerable young people deemed ‘at risk’ of anti-social and criminal behaviour. In so doing, we explore the complexities of the kind of emotional work involved in policy-in-practice, particularly in policy interventions which might at a general level be critiqued as representing individualising neoliberal modes of governance which ‘responsibilise’, or even stigmatise, individuals (Bowlby et al., 2014; Pykett, 2014). Critics argue that such policies target attention on the need to discipline what are viewed as problematic emotions and related behaviours (a particular characteristic of many policy interventions with young people, Kraftl and Blazek, 2015), while failing to address wider structural inequalities. However, by looking more closely at how emotions are embedded in wider relational practices of care, we examine how those who participated both valued the emotional labour involved and insisted on the need to address some of the limitations of such models of practice. This in turn engages with wider discussions (Newman, Chapter 2, this volume; Laurie and Bondi, 2005) on exploring the risks and opportunities of the apparent co-option of emotional work into the emotional, neoliberal state by refusing any simple application of the somewhat totalising logics of neoliberalism. It instead demonstrates how other rationales and modes of practice may insist on the potential for other forms of emotional practice to emerge. This includes the recognition both of young people’s own embodied emotional agencies and of the need for supportive structures and relations of care alongside approaches which insist on the need to address wider aspects of inequality and exclusion.<br/
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